Natural
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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.
- Natural (♮), in music, are the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, as opposed to the sharps/flats.
- Иatural, an album by Japanese alternative rock group Orange Range
- Natural abundance, in physics, the relative quantities of isotopes found in nature
- Natural arch, naturally occurring rock formation
- Natural capital, in economics, the naturally occurring resources in the earth's biosphere
- Natural capitalism, a set of economic reforms to reward efficiency
- Natural childbirth, childbirth with minimal medical intervention
- Natural deduction, in mathematics, a class of foundational approaches to proofs
- Natural disaster, such as earthquakes, huricanes, etc
- Natural environment, an environment on earth or elsewhere not primarily of human creation
- Natural family planning, contraceptive methods permitted by the Catholic Church
- Natural food movement, a diet emphasizing unprocessed food
- Natural footed, in surfing, left foot forward
- Natural history, a broad term for the study of living things
- Natural History (disambiguation), for various works titled Natural History
- Natural language, human language spoken natively, as opposed to purely constructed languages
- Natural language processing, in computer science, computer comprehension of human language
- Natural law, in law or morals, system of justice conceived as independent of current political order
- Natural Law Party, the political arm of the Transcendental Meditation movement
- Natural logarithm, in mathematics, logarithm to base e
- Natural monopoly, in economics, a monopoly persisting for fundamental economic reasons
- natural number, in mathematics, numbers 1,2,3,...
- Natural programming language
- Natural resource, naturally occurring commodities valued in their (relatively) unprocessed form
- Natural satellite, a moon or similar naturally occurring planetary satellite
- Natural science, study of the non-human aspects of the world
- Natural selection, alteration of biological populations over time (one of the foundations of the theory of evolution)
- Natural semantic metalanguage, in linguistics, an approach to semantic analysis
- Natural theology, theology based on reason and experience
- Natural transformation, in mathematics, a means of transforming functors in category theory
- Natural units, in physics, a set of measurement units, originally proposed by Max Planck
- Naturalism (philosophy), stances deriving from materialism and pragmatism
- United States Natural Law Party, a political arm of the Transcendental Meditation movement