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• self-explanatory — /self ik splan euh tawr ee, tohr ee, self /, adj. explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious. Also, self explaining /self ik splay ning, self /. [1895 1900] * * * …   Universalium

• Self-organization — is a process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source. Self organizing systems typically (though not always)… …   Wikipedia

• Self-consciousness — is an sense of self awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being. An unpleasant feeling of self consciousness may occur when… …   Wikipedia

• Self-categorization theory — Self categorization theory, sometimes referred to as the social identity theory of the group, seeks to explain the assumptions that need to be made about psychological group formation in order to understand social categorization studies on… …   Wikipedia

• Self-replicating spacecraft — The idea of self replicating spacecraft has been applied in theory to several distinct tasks . The particular variant of this idea applied to the idea of space exploration is known as a von Neumann probe. Other variants include the Berserker and… …   Wikipedia

• Self-defence in English law — In English criminal law, the defence of self defence provides for the right of people to act in a manner that would be otherwise unlawful in order to preserve the physical integrity of themselves or others or to prevent any crime. For the… …   Wikipedia

• Self-serving bias — A self serving bias occurs when people attribute their successes to internal or personal factors but attribute their failures to situational factors beyond their control. The self serving bias can be seen in the common human tendency to take… …   Wikipedia

• Self-organized criticality — In physics, self organized criticality (SOC) is a property of (classes of) dynamical systems which have a critical point as an attractor. Their macroscopic behaviour thus displays the spatial and/or temporal scale invariance characteristic of the …   Wikipedia

• Self-defense (United States) — In the United States, the defense of self defense allows a person attacked to use reasonable force in their own defense and the defense of others. For the theory explaining why this is allowed as an excuse or justification, see Self defenseWhile… …   Wikipedia

• self-explanatory — adjective Date: 1848 explaining itself ; capable of being understood without explanation …   New Collegiate Dictionary