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Natural Astrology: See Meteorological astrology.

Meteorological Astrology (Astro-Meteorology): The use of astrology for forecasting the weather conditions, earthquakes, and severe storms. Also called natural astrology.

Natural Logarithm: Logarithm to the base e (approximately 2.7183).

Natural Reservoir Pressure: The pressure within an oil or gas reservoir that forces oil or gas up the well bore when the reservoir is penetrated by drilling.

Natural Resources: Assets that are physically consumed or waste away, such as oil, minerals, gravel, and timber.

Natural Levee: A mound of sediment that parallels a stream channel forming a levee-like deposit. When flood waters leave the normal stream channel and enter the flood plain there is a reduction of velocity . . . View Full Definition

Natural Language Processing: Algorithms which attempt to understand the true intent of a search query rather than just matching results to keywords.

Natural Gas: A mixture of methane and other gases, found trapped over petroleum deposits under the earth.

Natural Gender: The assignment of nouns to grammatical categories based on the gender or lack of gender in the signified object or creature. This term contrasts with grammatical gender, in which the designa . . . View Full Definition

Natural Hat-Trick: A natural hat-trick is when one player scores three goals in a row without any player from either team scoring in between them, also when three goals are scored by one player in one period.