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cradle-to-cradle design

cradle-to-cradle design noun: a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems that models human industry on nature's processes, where materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in metabolisms.

Noun

cradle-to-cradle design (countable and uncountable, plural cradle-to-cradle designs)

  1. A biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems that models human industry on nature's processes, where materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in metabolisms.

Forms of cradle-to-cradle design

pluralcradle-to-cradle designs

Questions about cradle-to-cradle design

What does cradle-to-cradle design mean?
Cradle-to-cradle design means a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems that models human industry on nature's processes, where materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in metabolisms.
What part of speech is cradle-to-cradle design?
Cradle-to-cradle design is a noun.
What is the plural of cradle-to-cradle design?
The plural of cradle-to-cradle design is cradle-to-cradle designs.

Words near cradle-to-cradle design in the dictionary

  1. cradle-robbers
  2. cradle-snatch
  3. cradle-snatched
  4. cradle-snatches
  5. cradle-snatching
  6. cradle-to-cradle design
  7. cradle-to-cradle designs
  8. cradle-to-grave
  9. cradleboard
  10. cradleboards
  11. cradled

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