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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikidataRate this definition:4.7 / 14 votes

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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Numerology

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. 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.

3. Yucheng Wang:

   When the climate got wetter and the ice began to melt, it led to the formation of lakes, rivers, and marshes. The ecosystem changed and the biomass of the vegetation reduced and would not have been able to sustain the herds of mammoths, we have shown that climate change, specifically precipitation, directly drives the change in the vegetation -- humans had no impact on them at all based on our models.

4. Oceanographer Autun Purser:

   There is generally a low reign of food, as it is in the middle of the Pacific Gyre, a low productivity area with little upwelling nutrient rich waters, so though there will be seafloor animals, there will not be a high biomass down there probably.

5. Chief Executive Magnus Hall:

   The options include a possible fuel change to gas or biomass, or selling the plant, we would also welcome it if compensation for the decommissioning of hard-coal plants was extended beyond 2026.

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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
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=biomass