Natural
Definition of Natural
Nat´u`ral | a. | 1. | Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; innate; not artificial, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. | | 2. | Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death; anger is a natural response to insult. | | 3. | Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology. | | 4. | Conformed to truth or reality | | 5. | Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. | | 6. | Connected by the ties of consanguinity. | | 7. | Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child. | | 8. | Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate. | | 9. | (Math.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; - said of certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. | | 10. | (Mus.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. | | 11. | Existing in nature or created by the forces of nature, in contrast to production by man; not made, manufactured, or processed by humans; as, a natural ruby; a natural bridge; natural fibers; a deposit of natural calcium sulfate. Opposed to artificial, man-made, manufactured, processed and synthetic. | | 12. | Not processed or refined; in the same statre as that existing in nature; as, natural wood; natural foods. | | n. | 1. | A native; an aboriginal. | | 2. | Natural gifts, impulses, etc. | | 3. | One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. | | 4. | (Mus.) A character [ | | 5. | A person who has an innate talent that makes success in some specific endeavor, such as sports, much easier than for others; as, Pele was a natural in soccer. |
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