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adj. - Relating to or proceeding by an increase in the rate of a chemical reaction in which a product of the reaction itself hastens or intensifies the rate.

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  • From the macro, the economy has just about reached the point of being what I would call autocatalytic, in that it's feeding itself.
  • Jagers op Akkerhuis said, is the set of so-called autocatalytic enzymes, which are chemicals that react in a self-perpetuating cycle.
  • My premise did not exclude communities or require replication that is "autocatalytic".
  • The evolution of multicellularity therefore qualifies as an "autocatalytic" process; once set in motion, it drives itself exponentially from then on.
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