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PRODUCTIVITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being productive or having the power to produce
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("productivity" is a kind of...):
fecundity; fruitfulness (the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth)
Derivation:
productive (yielding positive results)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("productivity" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
Domain category:
economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)
Context examples:
The study of barite from water columns in areas of high productivity also proves the existence of a P‑rich amorphous precursor.
(Researchers discover the oceanic precipitation mechanism for barium, which is a proxy for marine bacterial productivity, University of Granada)
Microalgae have a productivity rate considerably higher than that of soybeans and sugarcane.
(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)
Stability in climate patterns is crucial to maintaining fish productivity.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
Once deposited there, their iron content could be enough to boost the productivity of marine phytoplankton, feeding new blooms of these microscopic algae and altering ocean ecosystems.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
The overall goal is to increase the effectiveness, capabilities, or productivity of current projects; to stimulate cooperative approaches; and/or to promote new research directions through multi-disciplinary or regional collaborations.
(Center Core Grants, NCI Thesaurus)
Decades after farmland is abandoned, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover, according to new University of Minnesota research.
(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)
Importantly, hangovers can lead to reduced productivity, impaired performance (including missing work or academic underperformance) and even risk to daily tasks such driving or operating heavy machinery.
(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)
Extensive loss of sea ice in the Arctic will likely accelerate, further threatening oceanic ecosystems and productivity, and amplifying weather extremes at lower latitudes.
(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)
Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the the version 2.0 of the work productivity and activity impairment specific health problem questionnaire (WPAI:SHP) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC Questionnaire WPAI:SHP v2.0 Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
They found that high rates of carbon accumulation in lake sediments were stimulated by several factors, including thermokarst erosion and deposition of terrestrial organic matter, nutrient release from thawing permafrost that stimulated lake productivity, and by slow decomposition in cold, anoxic lake bottoms.
(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)
