plural of natural logarithm

Control over the market for a product which occurs when a firm gains large benefit from economies of scale, or from a superior business model or product, and is thus able to produce a very large percentage of the total market demand for a given product and unintentionally exclude meaningful competition via price structures.

plural of natural monopoly

(mathematics) The set of positive integers, {1, 2, 3, ...}. / (mathematics, computer science) The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.

(mathematics) a positive integer {1, 2, 3, ...} / (mathematics) a non-negative integer {0, 1, 2, ...}

(music) A musical grammar which arises spontaneously in a musical culture (as opposed to an artificial grammar).

A male biological child, whether legitimate or illegitimate, as opposed to one adopted. / An illegitimate son.

(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

(Australia, regional) An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying between the roadway proper and the footpath, if there is one; a tree lawn.

Of or pertaining to an amicable, kindly disposition.