abiological

[ ey-bahy-uh-loj-i-kuhl ]

adjective

1. not occurring or produced naturally; synthetic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of abiological¹

First recorded in 1875–80; a- ⁶ + biological

Example Sentences

"Abiological samples can have unique distributions across this spectrum relative to each other, but they are also distinct from the biological distributions."

From Science Daily

"I see this cometary material that we're analysing as frozen primordial soup. It's the kind of stuff that if you had it, and warmed it up somehow, and put it in the right environment, with the right conditions, you may eventually get life forming out of it. "What we may be looking at here is our abiological ancestral material - this is stuff that went into the mix to produce life.

From BBC

Czaja . assert that Guilbaud . claim that “the geologic record of Fe isotope fractionation can be explained by abiological precipitation of pyrite.”

From Science Magazine

We conclude that the Fe isotope compositions of Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic marine sedimentary rocks are the result of numerous processes, including abiological and biological Fe redox processes.

From Science Magazine

On the other hand, the biological sciences are sharply marked off from the abiological, or those which treat of the phenomena manifested by not-living matter, in so far as the properties of living matter distinguish it absolutely from all other kinds of things, and as the present state of knowledge furnishes us with no link between the living and the not-living.

From Project Gutenberg