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.

(retronym, linguistics) Any human language that has evolved naturally in a community, usually in contrast to computer programming languages, to controlled natural languages, and to constructed languages such as Esperanto (although constructed languages are subject to change by natural forces among fluent speakers).