The cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a cross-fertilization of scientific and technical disciplines. From Dictionary.com.
You'd say there's no cultural cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [Covergent Series]
Was there much cross-fertilization between the two?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Calvin Kytle, January 19, 1991. Interview A-0365. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Today, such academic cross-fertilization continues. From Wordnik.com. [King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein: The Future of the Middle East] Reference
"We think there should be more cross-fertilization," she said. From Wordnik.com. [A Mom Brokers Treatment for Her Twins' Fatal Illness] Reference
The aim is to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas – and to have fun. From Wordnik.com. [Off to Camp] Reference
"Rates tend to be more stable over time because of that cross-fertilization.". From Wordnik.com. [Medicare Moves] Reference
In the greenhouse a hive of bees is kept so that cross-fertilization may go on. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
But I think most of us are enriched by the cross-fertilization that we have today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Long Island Student Becomes Teacher of Tibetan Buddhism - July 9, 2000] Reference
But such cross-fertilization does not go very deep in the larger scheme of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Media and the Military] Reference
Crick, Francis H.C. cross-breeding cross-fertilization crustacean cytoplasm cytoskeleton. From Wordnik.com. [21. Life Sciences] Reference
Partitioning of memetic replicators into different groups, then careful cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
As the millennial sideshow puts up its tents, such cross-fertilization is likely to increase. From Wordnik.com. [Time Of Troubles] Reference
Kozminski Business School in Warsaw offers a cross-fertilization approach to business education. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Europe, Business Schools Bloom] Reference
Much of Ridley's story is built around this fruitful episode of intellectual cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Virtues] Reference
By then, there had been culinary cross-fertilization from Asia, the Islamic world and bits of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Among The Greatest Cuisines, Turkish Is A Delight] Reference
There was much intellectual cross-fertilization between Hull-House and the University of Chicago and vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Addams] Reference
Yet Nabokov's work, here as elsewhere, has been serving a useful function of interpretation, cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov] Reference
There could even be some kind of a collaboration here or some kind of cross-fertilization of techniques and packets. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2004] Reference
The fertilized cells (embryos) produced from this cross-fertilization carry a single set of chromosomes from both parents. From Wordnik.com. [5 Breeding Triticale] Reference
There was a wonderful cross-fertilization on all fronts, on the clothing front, on the music front, even on books and radio. From Wordnik.com. [Janis Ian Recounts Her Renegade Teen Years] Reference
Pansies are the easiest of plants to grow from seed, and they offer a ready response to experiments with cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
In short, Taiwan is a true tale of the kind of cultural cross-fertilization that 21st century globalization promises to bring. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: Taiwan: Aperture to the New Asia] Reference
The cross-fertilization of University and industrial research is essential in the modern world and beneficial to both parties. From Wordnik.com. [Research in the United Kingdom] Reference
Charles Darwin's experiments with plants showed that self-fertilized plants were weaker than those produced by cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE NEWS] Reference
In addition, feminist philosophers have more motivation for methodological cross-fertilization than do many nonfeminist philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [Analytic Feminism] Reference
The physicist Maxwell himself had remarked in the 19th century that unity of science is the ˜cross-fertilization of the sciences™. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Science] Reference
But when you have one person who is a native and four people who are here illegally, then you don ` t have the same cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [Mexifornia: A State of Becoming] Reference
This means that each seed contains not only the embryo that resulted from cross-fertilization (called a gametic embryo), but also several. From Wordnik.com. [4: Multipurpose trees] Reference
One of the considerations in hiring (stressed by “pheno” above) is the cross-fertilization with people working in adjoining specialties. From Wordnik.com. [The String Theory Backlash] Reference
But when you get the cross-fertilization of various instruments coming and going without instruction sometimes, you get the fascinating results. From Wordnik.com. [Learning by 'Broz-mosis'] Reference
There is evidence that the subcabinet group was responsible for considerable cross-fertilization of civil rights programs among the departments. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
The revisionists en - couraged such cross-fertilization, the radicals con - demned it; the party executive failed to establish any clear policy. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Therefore libertarian philosophers do not find much help or inspiration in economic theory, and there is little cross-fertilization in this area. From Wordnik.com. [Economics and Economic Justice] Reference
Visitors to this important exhibition will be able to examine a little known period and explore the cross-fertilization of ideas from East and West. From Wordnik.com. [At the Museums: Gems from the Silk Road] Reference
It is an invaluable opportunity for the cross-fertilization of ideas as you develop business strategies in this new and more challenging environment. From Wordnik.com. [Speech from the Australian Foreign Minister - Australia and Malaysia: An Enduring Relationship] Reference
The most notable form of this musical cross-fertilization is Latin jazz, which is all but ignored in Burns's film and given passing nods in the book. From Wordnik.com. [Not Quite All That Jazz] Reference
As might be expected, there are numerous contrivances for cross-fertilization among them, some of which are so extraordinary as to be scarcely credible. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
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