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Having many roots.

That area of a grossly polluted stream that contains the complex organic wastes that are decomposing primarily by anaerobic processes.

Obesity; over weight.

An apparatus which makes a single object appear as many objects.

1. Text formatting, where text is structured as a collection of interdependent modules.
2. Structuring of information based upon the notion of scope, which may be understood as a viewpoint or a way of looking and analyzing something.

Polyscopic information is presented in terms of different aspects which intuitively correspond to "sides" or "angles of looking". The aspects may reflect different reader categories, ways of looking at the subject, etc.

To see the naturalness of the polyscopic presentation, it is useful to think of inspecting a hand-held object. Naturally, a person uses the capacity of the hand to turn the object at different angles and take it closer or farther from the eye to explore the object.

In a similar way, polyscopic information structuring facilitates the active exploration of a presented subject.

Polyscopic information structuring supports "holistic" or "multiple-perspective" thinking. This way of thinking is especially relevant in the post-industrial era, where it has become increasingly important that both technical, socio-cultural, political, and other aspects of an issue be taken into account in decision making.

In a similar way, the polyscopic structuring of information also supports active, exploratory learning.

1. Referring to a word that has various meanings or more than one meaning.
2. Etymology: from Late Greek polysemantos, having many meanings; based on the prefix poly, "many" +semainein, "to mean", from sema, "sign".

1. A word, or words, with many meanings.
2. A word or phrase, or words and phrases, with multiple, related meanings.

1. Multiplicity of meanings.
2. The capability of words to assume various new meanings without losing the older meaning or meanings.

1. Having or characterized by having many meanings.
2. The existence of several meanings for a single word or phrase.

Learn more about polysemy and polysemous and how they apply to multiple words.

The capacity of an organ or organism to respond to multiple stimulations.

1. Being responsive to multiple agents or stimuli.
2. Affecting or pertaining to multiple sense mechanisms.

The recorded physiological function(s) obtained from polysomnography.

The recorded results of polysomnography or the recordings during sleep of multiple physiological variables.

Someone who monitors sleep studies and records the relevant physiologic variables.

1. Continuous measurement and recording of relevant normal and abnormal physiological activity during sleep.
2. The polygraphic recording during sleep of multiple physiologic variables, both directly and indirectly related to the state and stages of sleep, to assess possible biological causes of sleep disorders.

Usually, respiration, oxygen saturation, body position, and other factors are also measured during polysomnography.