Amoeba
noun
A small water creature that constantly changes shape, typically moves slowly and ingests its food by surrounding and engulfing it.
The scientist observed the amoeba under a microscope.
Often appears as...
- amoeba movement
- amoeba reproduction
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General,Academic
noun
A company or organization that has an irregular shape or lacks a clear structure, typically changing as it expands.
With its numerous acquisitions, the corporation became an amoeba, continually changing its business model.
Often appears as...
- amoeba company
- amoeba organization
Usage tips
General,Academic
noun
A small water creature that constantly changes shape, typically moves slowly and ingests its food by surrounding and engulfing it.
The scientist observed the amoeba under a microscope.
Often appears as...
- amoeba movement
- amoeba reproduction
Usage tips
General,Academic
noun
A company or organization that has an irregular shape or lacks a clear structure, typically changing as it expands.
With its numerous acquisitions, the corporation became an amoeba, continually changing its business model.
Often appears as...
- amoeba company
- amoeba organization
Usage tips
General,Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Context
Use 'amoeba' when discussing biology or single-celled organisms.
Amoebas are a common topic in biology class.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Usage
Descriptively, 'amoeba' can be used to talk about something that changes often.
Her moods are like an amoeba, constantly shifting.
Pro Tip 3/3Microscopic Scale
Remember that amoebas are very tiny and not visible to the naked eye.
Amoebas require a microscope to be seen.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Context
Use 'amoeba' when discussing biology or single-celled organisms.
Amoebas are a common topic in biology class.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Usage
Descriptively, 'amoeba' can be used to talk about something that changes often.
Her moods are like an amoeba, constantly shifting.
Pro Tip 3/3Microscopic Scale
Remember that amoebas are very tiny and not visible to the naked eye.
Amoebas require a microscope to be seen.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Context
Use 'amoeba' when discussing biology or single-celled organisms.
Amoebas are a common topic in biology class.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Usage
Descriptively, 'amoeba' can be used to talk about something that changes often.
Her moods are like an amoeba, constantly shifting.
Pro Tip 3/3Microscopic Scale
Remember that amoebas are very tiny and not visible to the naked eye.
Amoebas require a microscope to be seen.
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Dennis Hong: My 7...
This robot is an amoeba robot. Now, we don't have enough time to go into technical details, I'll just show you some of the experiments. These are some of the early feasibility experiments. We store potential energy to the elastic skin to make it move, or use active tension cords to make it move forward and backward.
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Turning trash into toys...
well you make a triangle. With four, you make a square, you make a pentagon, you make a hexagon, you make all these kind of polygons. And they have some wonderful properties. If you look at the hexagon, for instance, it's like an amoeba, which is constantly changing its own profile.
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What's so funny about...
amoeba tiny inches sticking on to Iraq and now voila the brain there we go this little baby has a lot of horsepower it's not come comes completely conscious it's got state-of-the-art lobes we got the occipital lobe so we can actually see the world we got the temporal lobe
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Heather Barnett: What...
belonging to the kingdom of the amoeba. It is a single-celled organism, a cell, that joins together with other cells to form a mass super-cell to maximize its resources. So within a slime mold you might find thousands or millions of nuclei, all sharing a cell wall,
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Life Beyond Earth, Part...
in all different kinds of chemistries, all different kinds of temperatures. All different circumstances. Some are shallow, some are deep. We don't know who these are. They're not fungi, they're not amoebas, they're not bacteria. We don't know.
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Danny Hillis: Back to...
Because all of these technologies are feeding back on themselves. We're taking off. And what we are is we're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas
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Lifesaving Medicines...
range and what the venom does so the function of the venom is to kill you or amoeba lies you as quickly as possible because either the snake or other creature wants to eat you or wants to be protected from you so why would I do it
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What's so funny about...
so if you just give me a minute here, okay. Okay, let me just say, there's some good news. There is some good news. First of all, let me say, we've come a long, long way. We started off as a teeny, teeny little one-celled amoeba,
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Michael Dickinson: How a...
but not only is its brain the size of a salt grain, which is comparable for a fruit fly, it is the size of a salt grain. So here's some other organisms at the similar scale. This animal is the size of a paramecium and an amoeba,
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Juan Enriquez: The...
which is part of the reason why this whole species-mapping project is so important. Because we're just beginning to learn where we came from and what we are. And we're finding amoebas like this. This is the amoeba dubia.
Video examples
Dennis Hong: My 7...
This robot is an amoeba robot. Now, we don't have enough time to go into technical details, I'll just show you some of the experiments. These are some of the early feasibility experiments. We store potential energy to the elastic skin to make it move, or use active tension cords to make it move forward and backward.
Video examples
Turning trash into toys...
well you make a triangle. With four, you make a square, you make a pentagon, you make a hexagon, you make all these kind of polygons. And they have some wonderful properties. If you look at the hexagon, for instance, it's like an amoeba, which is constantly changing its own profile.
Video examples
What's so funny about...
amoeba tiny inches sticking on to Iraq and now voila the brain there we go this little baby has a lot of horsepower it's not come comes completely conscious it's got state-of-the-art lobes we got the occipital lobe so we can actually see the world we got the temporal lobe
Video examples
Heather Barnett: What...
belonging to the kingdom of the amoeba. It is a single-celled organism, a cell, that joins together with other cells to form a mass super-cell to maximize its resources. So within a slime mold you might find thousands or millions of nuclei, all sharing a cell wall,
Video examples
Life Beyond Earth, Part...
in all different kinds of chemistries, all different kinds of temperatures. All different circumstances. Some are shallow, some are deep. We don't know who these are. They're not fungi, they're not amoebas, they're not bacteria. We don't know.
Video examples
Danny Hillis: Back to...
Because all of these technologies are feeding back on themselves. We're taking off. And what we are is we're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas
Video examples
Lifesaving Medicines...
range and what the venom does so the function of the venom is to kill you or amoeba lies you as quickly as possible because either the snake or other creature wants to eat you or wants to be protected from you so why would I do it
Video examples
What's so funny about...
so if you just give me a minute here, okay. Okay, let me just say, there's some good news. There is some good news. First of all, let me say, we've come a long, long way. We started off as a teeny, teeny little one-celled amoeba,
Video examples
Michael Dickinson: How a...
but not only is its brain the size of a salt grain, which is comparable for a fruit fly, it is the size of a salt grain. So here's some other organisms at the similar scale. This animal is the size of a paramecium and an amoeba,
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Juan Enriquez: The...
which is part of the reason why this whole species-mapping project is so important. Because we're just beginning to learn where we came from and what we are. And we're finding amoebas like this. This is the amoeba dubia.
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Dave Matthews
South African Musician
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.
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Kirk Cameron
American Actor
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.
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Joe Gibbs
American Coach
I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.
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Albert Claude
Belgian Scientist
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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James Dobson
American Psychologist
Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.
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Mikko Hypponen
American Scientist
Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.
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Mario J. Molina
Mexican Scientist
I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Van Heflin
I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.
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Dave Matthews
South African Musician
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.
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Kirk Cameron
American Actor
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.
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Joe Gibbs
American Coach
I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.
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Albert Claude
Belgian Scientist
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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James Dobson
American Psychologist
Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.
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Mikko Hypponen
American Scientist
Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.
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Mario J. Molina
Mexican Scientist
I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Van Heflin
I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.
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