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colonisation 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. colonization: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
  2. (colonise) colonize: settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
  3. Colonization, (or Colonisation in British English), occurs whenever any one or more species populate an area. The term, which is derived from the Latin colere, "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," originally related to humans. ...
  4. Colonisation is the process in biology by which a species spreads into new areas, regions, and continents.
  5. (Colonising) In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. ...
  6. (Colonised) Bacteria which exist in an area (wound) in sufficient number to cause local or systemic signs and symptoms; not an infection.
  7. The process of a country being taken over and becoming a colony of another. ««
  8. the process in which microorganisms live and reproduce in or on either the human body without causing disease, or an inanimate object such as a disinfection machine.
  9. the process by which a species enters a new area. Some species are good colonizers because they disperse easily and reproduce quickly. Other species are poor colonisers because they only disperse and reproduce very slowly.
  10. Colonisation is the process of settlement in a new country and the formation of a new community which is either fully or partly subject to the state from which the settlers emigrated. ...
  11. Microorganisms that establish themselves in a particular environment such as a body surface without producing disease