Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Originating externally.
- adjective Originating or produced from outside a cell, tissue, or organism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, applied by Von Humboldt to extrusive, volcanic rocks, in contrast to endogenous rocks. See
endogenous , 3. - Growing by additions on the outside; specifically, in botany, belonging to or characteristic of the class of exogens.
- Produced on the outside, as the spores of hyphomycetous and many other fungi; growing out from some part: specifically applied in anatomy to those processes of a vertebra which have no independent ossific centers of their own, but are mere outgrowths.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) derived from or originating outside; pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of
endogenous . - adjective (Bot.) Growing by addition to the exterior; growing by addition of a new external layer of cells on the surface just beneath the bark; -- of plants.
- adjective (Anat.) Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to
autogenous . - adjective (Med.) caused by factors from outside the body, rather than from an abnormality of internal functions; -- of illness.
- adjective (Biol., Biochem.) not synthesized within the organism; absorbed or assimilated from outside the organism.
- adjective (Med.) an aneurism which is produced by causes acting from without, as from injury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology
produced ororiginating outside of anorganism - adjective medicine of a disease: having an
external cause - adjective economics of information: received from outside a group
- adjective economics descriptive of a group created by public as opposed to private information
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective derived or originating externally
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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PERPER: Well, definitely, she had a good what we call exogenous, outside reason for depression.
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If the marketplace has withdrawn buyers, this is called exogenous liquidity risk a characteristic of the market which is a collection of buyers; a typical indicator here is an abnormally wide bid-ask spread.
unknown title 2011
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If the marketplace has withdrawn buyers, this is called exogenous liquidity risk a characteristic of the market which is a collection of buyers; a typical indicator here is an abnormally wide bid-ask spread.
unknown title 2011
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For the record, my greatest concern with desiccated thyroid (or levothyroxine or T3) is when they prescribed in a manner that results in long-term exogenous hyperthyroidism.
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Well I do not - when you used the word exogenous you threw me there.
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He could avoid stacking the deck by basing predictions of future variables on their own past values, on the past values of other variables, and on what economists call "exogenous shocks."
A Nobel for Non-Keynesians David R. Henderson 2011
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It is also important to realize that markets go up and down and experience what economists refer to as exogenous shocks.
Is The Stock Market Rigged? Stephen Abraham 2010
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It is also important to realize that markets go up and down and experience what economists refer to as exogenous shocks.
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Those trees called exogenous grow by means of successive layers on the outside.
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Wealth, social standing, reputation for power, knowledge of alternatives, and attention are not easily described as exogenous to the political process and political institutions.
Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989
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