SPONTANEOUS
\spɒntˈe͡ɪni͡əs], \spɒntˈeɪniəs], \s_p_ɒ_n_t_ˈeɪ_n_iə_s]\
Definitions of SPONTANEOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion"
By Princeton University
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happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
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Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
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Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.
By Oddity Software
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Done or acting from natural impulse; as, spontaneous applause; not produced by outside force but resulting from forces within a thing; as, spontaneous combustion.
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Spontaneously.
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Spontaneousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Spontaneously.
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Of one's free-will: involuntary: acting by its own impulse or natural law: produced of itself or without interference.
By Daniel Lyons
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Spontaneously.
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Spontaneousness.
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Done or acting from one's own impulse; voluntary.
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Biol. Arising without external cause; self produced.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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That which occurs of itself, or without any manifest external cause. Evacuations are termed spontaneous, which are not produced by medicine. Sponta'neous las'situde is that which is not the result of fatigue. Diseases are also spontaneous which supervene without apparent cause. Sponta'neous Amputa’tion is the separation of a limb from the foetus in utero.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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