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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A corallite on a side of a branch as opposed to an axial corallite on the tip of the branch.
Industry:Natural environment
A horizontal movement of the water caused by gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth.
Industry:Natural environment
A non-inherited character, of function or structure, developed in an organism as a result of environmental influences during the individual's life.
Industry:Natural environment
A thick, pigmented vertical marking that encircles the circumference of an organism's body.
Industry:Natural environment
An area where larval and juvenile fish find food and shelter.
Industry:Natural environment
Any living or dead specimens, parts, or derivatives, or any product containing specimens, parts, or derivatives, of any species of coral in the cnidarian Orders: Antipatharia (black corals), Scleractinia (stony corals), Gorgonacea (horny corals), Stolonifera (organpipe corals and others), Alcyanacea (soft corals), and Coenothecalia (blue coral), of the Class Anthozoa; and all species of the Order Hydrocorallina (fire corals and hydrocorals) of the Class Hydrozoa.
Industry:Natural environment
In information technology, decreasing the size of stored information by reducing the representation of the information without significantly diminishing the information itself, usually by removing redundancies. The information requires decompression upon retrieval. Lossless compression allows the original data to be recreated exactly. Lossy compression sacrifices some accuracy to achieve greater compression.
Industry:Natural environment
Multiple facts (usually but not necessarily empirical) used as a basis for inference, testing, models, etc.; the word is plural (sing. Datum) and takes a plural verb.
Industry:Natural environment
