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		Definition of nonliving in US English: nonlivingadjectiveˌnänˈliviNGˌnänˈliviNG 1Inanimate; inorganic.  materials that come from nonliving sources  Example sentencesExamples -  Life depends upon the nonliving world for habitat, as well as energy and materials.
 -  A few types of bacteria also manufacture food from nonliving substances and therefore serve as producers in some cave communities.
 -  Design and construction professionals call the nonliving components of any landscape the hardscape.
 -  Reproduction - the process by which organisms make more organisms like themselves - is one of the things that sets living things apart from nonliving things.
 -  Molecular machines will bridge the gap between living matter and nonliving matter, making the border between life and death much fuzzier.
 -  In nonhuman terms, others might include other living species and the major nonliving components of the Earth.
 -  Inorganic mulches are materials that come from nonliving sources.
 -  Another theory was that fossils were nonliving imitations of living things, directly created by God.
 -  These explanations proceed by asserting that the most complex nonliving molecules will reproduce more efficiently than less complex nonliving molecules.
 -  Chemical toxins differ from biological weapons in that they are nonliving pathogens and require direct infection and contact with the victim.
 -  The experiments in this study showed that the directions of the change of the reflected light intensity caused by biological systems and heated nonliving objects are always opposite.
 -  The Gaia hypothesis was later refined to emphasize that the environment is regulated through feedback between living and nonliving systems.
 -  Reason is what distinguishes us from plants, nonhuman animals, and nonliving things, and so our purpose must involve its fruitful cultivation.
 -  Sponges subsist on macroscopic detritus material, but also consume cellular material, bacteria, and nonliving particles so small they cannot be resolved with a light microscope.
 -  A variety of living and nonliving skin substitutes are already available.
 -  Having discovered that the usual agents of fermentation, such as yeasts and bacteria, were alive, he denied the possibility of fermentation by nonliving substances.
 -  Life on earth is a web of relationships in which plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even nonliving entities mutually support each other.
 -  The Primordial Essence that is our individual lives extends throughout the limitless universe and permeates all things, living and nonliving.
 -  All the living and nonliving elements present in nature follow some pattern.
 -  Direct and indirect effects of UV radiation on nonliving and living systems have been the object of a number of important research efforts.
 
 2No longer alive.  a kidney from a nonliving donor  Example sentencesExamples -  Only about 15 percent of kidney transplants are done with living donors, the other recipients must wait about five years before receiving a kidney from a nonliving donor.
 
    Definition of nonliving in US English: nonlivingadjectiveˌnänˈliviNG 1Inanimate; inorganic.  materials that come from nonliving sources  Example sentencesExamples -  A variety of living and nonliving skin substitutes are already available.
 -  The Gaia hypothesis was later refined to emphasize that the environment is regulated through feedback between living and nonliving systems.
 -  Design and construction professionals call the nonliving components of any landscape the hardscape.
 -  Another theory was that fossils were nonliving imitations of living things, directly created by God.
 -  Having discovered that the usual agents of fermentation, such as yeasts and bacteria, were alive, he denied the possibility of fermentation by nonliving substances.
 -  The experiments in this study showed that the directions of the change of the reflected light intensity caused by biological systems and heated nonliving objects are always opposite.
 -  Sponges subsist on macroscopic detritus material, but also consume cellular material, bacteria, and nonliving particles so small they cannot be resolved with a light microscope.
 -  These explanations proceed by asserting that the most complex nonliving molecules will reproduce more efficiently than less complex nonliving molecules.
 -  The Primordial Essence that is our individual lives extends throughout the limitless universe and permeates all things, living and nonliving.
 -  Reason is what distinguishes us from plants, nonhuman animals, and nonliving things, and so our purpose must involve its fruitful cultivation.
 -  Life depends upon the nonliving world for habitat, as well as energy and materials.
 -  In nonhuman terms, others might include other living species and the major nonliving components of the Earth.
 -  A few types of bacteria also manufacture food from nonliving substances and therefore serve as producers in some cave communities.
 -  Inorganic mulches are materials that come from nonliving sources.
 -  Life on earth is a web of relationships in which plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even nonliving entities mutually support each other.
 -  Direct and indirect effects of UV radiation on nonliving and living systems have been the object of a number of important research efforts.
 -  Molecular machines will bridge the gap between living matter and nonliving matter, making the border between life and death much fuzzier.
 -  Reproduction - the process by which organisms make more organisms like themselves - is one of the things that sets living things apart from nonliving things.
 -  Chemical toxins differ from biological weapons in that they are nonliving pathogens and require direct infection and contact with the victim.
 -  All the living and nonliving elements present in nature follow some pattern.
 
 2No longer alive.  a kidney from a nonliving donor  Example sentencesExamples -  Only about 15 percent of kidney transplants are done with living donors, the other recipients must wait about five years before receiving a kidney from a nonliving donor.
 
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