v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of part.
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noun-plural. The local environment.
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n. the local environment
Word Usage
"As Edgar Morin said in his book On Transdisciplinarity, the necessity is to follow «a knowledge in motion, a knowledge which progresses by moving back from the parts to the whole and from the whole to the parts»."