Definition of spontaneous

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Spontaneous (a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion..

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Fission :: Fission (n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation..
Spontoon :: Spontaneous (a.) Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood..
Accord :: Accord (v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord..
Kink :: Kink (n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord..
Duplication :: Duplication (n.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells..
Violent :: Violent (a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
Hemicarp :: Hemicarp (n.) One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag..
Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..
Automaton :: Automaton (v. i.) Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
Voluntariness :: Voluntariness (n.) The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will..
Panspermy :: Panspermy (n.) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.
Heterogenist :: Heterogenist (n.) One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis..
Interjectional :: Interjectional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an interjection; consisting of natural and spontaneous exclamations..
Automaton :: Automaton (v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc..
Spontaneity :: Spontaneity (n.) The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force..
Alkarsin :: Alkarsin (n.) A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid..
Willing :: Willing (v. t.) Spontaneous; self-moved.
Free :: Free (superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift..
Abiogenesis :: Abiogenesis (n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis..
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