Definitions
Symbiotic
"Association of two different organisms living attached to each other or one within the other to their mutual advantage..."
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary
Synergistic
Working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect; "a synergistic effect"
Harmony
1. Harmony is the simultaneous vibration of two or more bodies whose harmonics do not produce discords, and whose fundamental pitches are harmonics of the lowest pitch, or are a unison with the resultant notes or overtones, or undertones, of any two or more of them.
2. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
Matrix
1. an enclosure within which something originates or develops
(from the Latin for womb).
2. A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained: “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every form of freedom”. (Benjamin N. Cardozo).
3. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from current networking experiments.
(see the network )
The name of the rather good 1999 cyberpunk movie "The Matrix" played on this sense, which however had been established for years before.
4. The totality of present-day computer networks
(popularized in this sense by John Quarterman; rare outside academic literature)
Nexus
A means of connection; a link or tie: The core or centre.
Permaculture
A system of perennial agriculture emphasizing the use of renewable natural resources and the enrichment of local ecosystems.
Bioregions
An area constituting a natural ecological community with characteristic flora, fauna, and environmental conditions and bounded by natural rather than artificial borders.
Potentiation
Ascent into the higher frequencies, energetic functions and activity.
Ephemeralization
Doing more with less.
Sympathetic vibration
The driving of a mechanical or acoustical system at its resonant frequency of energy from an adjacent system vibrating at this same frequency.
Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration" [syn: harmonic ]
Resonance
1. When a mechanical or acoustical system is acted upon by an external periodic driving force whose frequency equals a natural free oscillation frequency of the system, the amplitude of oscillation becomes large and the system is said to be in a state of resonance.
2. The quality or condition of being resonant: words that had resonance throughout his life.
3. Acoustics. Intensification and prolongation of sound, especially of a musical tone, produced by sympathetic vibration.
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