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habitat collapse: the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

context collapse: discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation; the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context"

rim collapse: the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached; (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended; "the ball hit the rim and bounced off"; the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object; roll around the rim of; "the ball rimmed the basket"; furnish with a rim; "rim a hat"; run around the rim of; "Sugar rimmed the dessert plate"

confines collapse: a bounded scope; "he stayed within the confines of the city"

parameter collapse: a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves; a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data; any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance

neighborhood collapse: people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"

gestalt collapse: a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

vicinity collapse: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

circumstances collapse: a person's financial situation (good or bad); "he found himself in straitened circumstances"; the state (usually personal) with regard to wealth; "each person was helped according to his circumstances"

circumference collapse: the size of something as given by the distance around it; the length of the closed curve of a circle; the boundary line encompassing an area or object; "he had walked the full circumference of his land"; "a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe"

borderland collapse: district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area; "the Welsh marches between England and Wales"

hem collapse: lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down; utter `hem' or `ahem'; fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my skirt"

fringe collapse: edging consisting of hanging threads or tassels; a social group holding marginal or extreme views; "members of the fringe believe we should be armed with guns at all times"; decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe; "fur fringed the hem of the dress"; adorn with a fringe; "The weaver fringed the scarf"

situation collapse: a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"; the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt; a complex or critical or unusual difficulty; "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple"

outpost collapse: a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops

verge collapse: a grass border along a road; the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"; border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal"

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