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Natural is defined as "of or relating to nature"; this applies to both definitions of 'nature': 'essence' ("one's true nature") and 'the untouched world' ("force of nature"). Natural is often used meaning "good", "healthy", or "belonging to human nature". This use can be questioned, as many freely growing plants are poisonous, for example.

Relating to the natural sciences:

  • Natural abundance, in physics, the relative quantities of isotopes found in nature
  • Natural capital, the naturally occurring resources in the earth's biosphere
  • Natural disaster, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, etc
  • Natural environment, an environment on earth or elsewhere not primarily of human creation
  • Natural resource, naturally occurring commodities valued in their (relatively) unprocessed form
  • Natural satellite, a moon or similar naturally occurring planetary satellite
  • Natural selection, the elimination of maladapted individuals from biological populations (one of the foundations of the theory of evolution)
  • Natural science, study of the non-human aspects of the world
  • Natural units, in physics, a set of measurement units, originally proposed by Max Planck

Relating to the social sciences:

Relating to the humanities:

  • Natural law, in law or morals, system of justice conceived as independent of current political order
  • Natural signs (♮), in music, are the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, as opposed to sharps ( ♯ ) or flats ( ♭ )
  • Natural theology, theology based on reason and experience
  • Naturalism (philosophy), stances deriving from materialism and pragmatism

In mathematics and computer science:

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