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externality

/ek-ster-nal-i-tee/US // ˌɛk stərˈnæl ɪ ti //UK // (ˌɛkstɜːˈnælɪtɪ) //

外在性,外在因素,外部性,外在条件

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ex·ter·nal·i·ties.

    • : the state or quality of being external.
    • : something external; an outward feature.
    • : excessive attention to externals.
    • : an external effect, often unforeseen or unintended, accompanying a process or activity: to eliminate externalities such as air pollution through government regulation.

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Examples

  • Animal meat gets to externalize a lot of its negatives — externalities like health care, ecological, worker welfare, animal welfare.

  • I think noise is one of the oldest externalities that we’ve had to deal with, and it is a natural byproduct of a lot of things that you want to do.

  • If these externalities hadn’t been acknowledged, perhaps we’d still be coughing in smoke-filled workplaces, planes, and restaurants.

  • Instead, technology companies must address the negative externalities of unchecked conspiracy theories and misinformation and redesign their products so that this content reaches fewer people.

  • In any case, there is a growing concern in many quarters over the externalities of meat production.

  • The externality, the pompousness of intention, the theatrical postures, was part of the romantic constitution.

  • There was in it a certain quality of externality that gained edge from the contrast with Mrs. Venables' all-reaching intimacy.

  • Hence, while he does not altogether avoid the poet as a character, his poets are drawn with a curious externality and detachment.

  • This superficiality or at least externality of relations is the source of actual conflict.

  • Is not all this semblance of externality in things a blessed foil to spiritual activity?