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Organic may refer to:

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• Organism, a living entity.
• Organ (anatomy), of or relating to a bodily organ.

Life:

• Organic life
• Life
• Biology

Materials and substances:

• Organic material

See also Biological material (disambiguation)

Chemistry:

• Organic chemistry, chemistry involving organic compounds.
• Organic compound, a compound that contains carbon (although some carbon-containing compounds are excluded).
• Organic reaction, a chemical reaction between organic compounds

Farming, certification and products:

• Organic agriculture, that which relies on ecosystem management rather than external agricultural inputs
• Organic certification, accreditation process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products
• Organic movement, organizations and individuals involved in the promotion of sustainable agriculture and organic farming
• Organic products, those certified organic
  • Organic food, produced through organic methods, including fruit, vegetables, and meat
    • Organic beef
  • Organic cotton, clothes and textiles made from organic produced cotton
  • Organic cosmetics, Cosmetic products manufactured by using certified organic botanicals' extracts (organic hydrosol)
  • Organic supplements, dietary supplements manufactured using USDA certified organic ingredients and processes

Computing:

• Organic computing, computing systems with properties of self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection
• Organic search, search results through unpaid search engine listings, rather than through paid advertisements
• Organic semiconductor, an organic compound that exhibits similar properties to inorganic semiconductors
• Wetware computer (or organic computer), a computer built from living neurons and ganglions
• Organic search engine, search engine which uses a combination of human operators and computer algorithms

Economics and Business:

• Organic growth, business expansion through increasing output and sales as opposed to mergers, acquisitions and take-overs
• Organic organization, one which is flexible and has a flat structure

Military:

• Organic (military), a military unit predominantly of one type (armour, infantry, artillery, etc.) may incorporate subunits of a different type, to improve combined arms capability e.g. organic artillery, organic armour

Law:

• Organic law, a fundamental law
• Organic statute
• Organic Articles, a French law presented in 1802

Other:

• Organic (model), forms, methods and patterns found in living systems, often used as a metaphor for non-living things.
• Organicism, the biological doctrine which stresses the organization, rather than the composition, of organisms
• Organic disease, involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs.
• Biological process, or organic process

See also

• All pages beginning with Organic

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