germination
- noun
- /ˌdʒɜːrmɪˈneɪʃən/
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nacimiento
- Countless other grassroots recycling organizations that had their germination in the turbulence of the late 1960s and early 1970s are at a similar crossroads, considering similar choices.
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The absence of patents may have assisted the "spread" of ideas over the past 10,000 years, but it perhaps hindered the incentive for the germination of new ideas in the first place.
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By virtue of their crossing national and cultural borders as a matter of normal practice and growth, the internally circumscribed corporate operations spanning the same frontiers, the internal cultural and social processes of big business organizations can also be an important site from which to observe the germination of global culture more generally.
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Most seeds, the seeds that lose germination the fastest, onions, tomatoes, corn can lose germination rate a little bit faster.
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Yep, when you're cleaning for germination, there's not really a good visual, but when there's debris in there, you can see all pouring seed and then over here it'll just be.
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These ceremonies deal with rain, germination, ripening of corn, war victory, hunting, and the tribal dead, comment authors of a study on revernacularizing classical Nahuatl through Aztec dance.
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It is necessary to notice that Wordsworth's verses, "The Child is father of the Man / And I could wish my days to be / Bound each to each by natural piety," do not only describe the germination of experience in one's childhood and its closeness "to the source of being," but also provide "a covenant of continuity with the poet's earlier self."
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They suggest, rather, that Munch viewed aberrant states of emotion, and particularly the emotional world of social outsiders living beyond the boundaries of bourgeois life, to be genuine points of germination for progressive art.
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I'm guessing that the same germination of libertarian ideas in social conservative form will continue to occur; libertarians have the intellectual firepower on fiscal issues, and the zeitgeist is on their side when it comes to the size of government and imposition on the lives of others.
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The germination of her interest in painting happened during a summer workshop at the local art center.
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In business, the germination of innovative ideas often comes from collaboration and brainstorming among team members.
Synonyms
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3.2
The process of making something like electricity or new cells
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2.0
The way a living thing grows and becomes more complex
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7.6
The start of something and how it began
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6.3
The time when something begins or is made
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2.8
The time when seeds start to grow and make small shoots
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6.5
An early stage when an idea or plan is not yet developed
The first stage when a project or living thing begins to form
The time when something first begins to exist, like an idea or a civilization
A time when new ideas or projects begin to grow
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Etymology
Germination is also used for the start of ideas and comes from the same root germen meaning 'sprout'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture an idea 'sprouting' like a seed, so germination means the early stage when something begins to develop.