Definitions for Biomass
ˈbaɪ oʊˌmæsbiomass

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. biomassnoun

   plant materials and animal waste used as fuel

2. biomassnoun

   the total mass of living matter in a given unit area

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. biomassnoun

   The total mass of all living things within a specific area, habitat etc.

2. biomassnoun

   Vegetation used as a fuel, or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose.

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1. Biomass

   Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms. In the latter context, there are variations in how biomass is defined, e.g. only from plants, or from plants and algae, or from plants and animals. The vast majority of biomass used for bioenergy does come from plants. Bioenergy is a type of renewable energy with potential to assist with climate change mitigation.

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1. biomass

   Biomass refers to the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume, including plants, animals, microorganisms and organic matter, which can be used as a source of energy. In the context of energy production, biomass is often used to refer to plant or plant-based materials, such as crops, wastes from agriculture or forests, and the organic component of municipal waste, that are renewable and sustainable sources of energy.

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1. Biomass

   Biomass is biological material from living, or recently living organisms, most often referring to plants or plant-derived materials. As a renewable energy source, biomass can either be used directly, or indirectly—once or converted into another type of energy product such as biofuel. Biomass can be converted to energy in three ways: thermal conversion, chemical conversion, and biochemical conversion. Historically, humans have harnessed biomass-derived energy products since the time when people began burning wood to make fire. In modern times, the term can be referred to in two meanings. In the first sense, biomass is plant matter used either to generate electricity, or to produce heat. Biomass-derived energy also holds the promise of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, a significant contributor to global warming, as carbon dioxide acts as a “greenhouse” gas by trapping heat absorbed by the earth from the sun. Although the burning of biomass releases as much carbon dioxide as the burning of fossil fuels, biomass burning does not release “new carbon” into the atmosphere, which the burning of fossil fuels does. This is because carbon dioxide released from fossil fuels was carbon that was fixated via photosynthesis millions of years ago that had been locked in the hydrocarbons of fossil fuels.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Biomass

   Total mass of all the organisms of a given type and/or in a given area. (From Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990) It includes the yield of vegetative mass produced from any given crop.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Biomass in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Biomass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Biomass in a Sentence

1. Masanobu Shimada:

   We can get an idea about biomass from the shading of its images.

2. Michael Cimarusti:

   When I was Michael Cimarusti, at Water Grill and Spago, I was in the process of becoming increasingly aware of these things, but now, I mean you have to be sleeping under a rock not to know that when some food blogger in Tokyo posts photos and writes about the delights of eating Pacific bluefin tuna -- which is down to 4 % of its historic biomass -- that person is not doing the world any favors.

3. Maria Uriarte:

   These are some of the trees that have denser wood, and trees with very dense wood historically have very low break rates and mortality rates, this storm was different -- trees 100 years old or more were broken. A proportion of these trees will be able rebuild the biomass and recover, and a number of them won't.

4. Angelos Anastasiou:

   This is positive news for the company, and it could even potentially lead to the government having a more positive outlook on the base load potential of biomass.

5. Craig Scott:

   Renewable energies (including) micro hydro, solar and biomass have high capital costs in the short-term, but they are sustainable versus the long-term pain of diesel.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Biomass
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Biomass
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass
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5. ^ Wikidata
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