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abiological, a.|ˌæbɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl, ˌeɪbaɪəʊ-|
[f. Gr. ἀ not + biological; f. Gr. βίος life + λόγ-ος discourse + -ical.]
Not pertaining to biology; pertaining to the study of inanimate things. Also, abiotic, inanimate.
1868H. B. Jones Croonian Lect. ii. 63 In the abiological sciences the earliest ideas of matter were quite separate from the ideas of force. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. i. 1 The biological sciences are sharply marked off from the abiological, or those which treat of the phenomena manifested by not-living matter. 1970Nature 14 Mar. 1029/1 Glycine and alanine are amino-acids most commonly synthesized in simulated primitive Earth (abiological) environments. 1981G. Porter in W. Palz et al. Energy from Biomass 672 We may seek to construct an abiological photosynthetic system.
Add: Hence abioˈlogically adv.
1893in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1979Proc. Grassland Soc. Southern Afr. XIV. 15 On a global basis it has been estimated that annually 200 million tons of N are fixed abiologically (e.g. by lightning). 1986Sci. Total Environment LIII. 133 Methylation occurs abiologically in the dark and is influenced by reaction temperature, inorganic mercury concentration and solution pH. |