For Community we have terms and definitions in 22 topics. The topics are Anthromorphemics, Anthropology, Aquaculture, Assets Based Community Developme, Biodiversity, Biology, Biomediation, Classic Yoga, E-Business, E-Learning, Environment, Flood Insurance, Green Energy, Heraldry, Lichens, Maps, Medical Education, Medieval Towns, Nature, Networking, Physical Geography and Sociology.

Community (Anthromorphemics)

Among chimpanzees, a large group of chimpanzees that, through fission and fusion, is composed of a series of constantly changing smaller units, including the all-male party, family unit, nursery unit, consortship, and gathering.

Community (Anthropology)

Among chimpanzees, a large group of chimpanzees that, through fission and fusion, is composed of a series of constantly changing smaller units, including the all-male party, family unit, nursery unit, consortship, and gathering.

Community (Aquaculture)

All of the plants and animals living in a specific area (habitat), often described by the most abundant or obvious organisms. The kelp forest community means all the animals and plants that are part of the kelp forest.

Community (Assets Based Community Developme)

(Wow! What a word with multiple definitions - all correct!) Try this one on for size from Kretzmann and McKnight - "Community includes support by a group, capacity of its members, collective effort, informality, the stories of each member, celebration, tragedy … to be in community is to be part of ritual, lamentation and celebration of our fallibility. It is only in community that we can be citizens. It is only in community that we can find care. It is only in community we hear people singing."

Community (Biodiversity)

A characteristic group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under similar environmental conditions

Community (Biology)

A situation in which populations of organisms each contain a habitat and a niche.

Community (Biomediation)

Assemblage of species (populations) of microorganisms that occur and interact within a given habitat

Community (Classic Yoga)

What more nearly compares with Our Community - a choir of psalm-singers or an armed camp? Rather the second. One can imagine how it must conform to the rules of military organization and leadership. Is it possible to establish the paths of advancement of the Community without repulse and attack? Is it possible to take a fortress by assault without knowing its situation? The conditions of defense and attack must be weighed. Needed is experienced knowledge and keen vigilence. They are wrong who consider the Community a house of prayer. They are wrong who call the Community a workshop. They are wrong who regard the Community as an exclusive laboratory. The Community is a hundred-eyed guard. The Community is the hurricane of the messenger. The Community is the banner of the conqueror. (COM, 183)
In a conscious community there is a place for every labor. Each one may select his task at will, for every labor is sharpened by new attainments. There is not the tedium of mechanical performance, for the worker is at the same time an experimenter. He understands the significance of the problem of introducing perfectionment of work without disturbing the general complex of rhythm. ...
Each one decisively finds work to suit Himself and can change it at will. Thus, necessary is both the desire to work and the open consciousness through which each labor becomes attractive. For labor is performed for the future, and each one carries his best stone. (COM, 202)
Our Community does not use force, it practices voluntary cooperation. (BR, 388)
I should add that the Community is the lighthouse and the sole anchor of humanity. Thus, the best people are under obligation to ease their unbearable burden. And how immense should be our gratitude to these High Spirits who for centuries have sacrificed Themselves and who continue to sacrifice Their well-deserved higher happiness so that They may ease the destiny of humanity and save the planet from destruction! (LHR I, p 460)

Community (E-Business)

A constantly changing group of people collaborating and sharing their ideas over an electronic network (e.g., the Internet). Communities optimize their collective power by affiliation around a common interest, by the compression of the time between member interactions (i.e., communicating in real time), and by asynchronous "postings" which potentially reach more participants and allow for more reflection time than real-time interactions.

Community (E-Learning)

See online community.

Community (Environment)

In ecology, an assemblage of populations of different species within a specified location in space and time. Sometimes, a particular subgrouping may be specified, such as the fish community in a lake or the soil arthropod community in a forest.

Community (Flood Insurance)

A political entity that has the authority to adopt and enforce floodplain ordinances for the area under its jurisdiction.

Community (Green Energy)

A group of plants and animals (including humans) living and interacting with one another.

Community (Heraldry)

Arms of Community [See under ARMS.]

Community (Lichens)

The collection of organisms included in a sampling unit (plot, quadrat, stand, etc.). This is the community in the concrete sense. Some ecologists apply it in an abstract sense as a recurrent association of organisms.

Community (Maps)

The people with common interests living in a particular area

Community (Medical Education)

A group of individuals living together in some form of social organization with cohesion in planning and operation and/or manifesting some unifying trait or common interest. In health care organization, it refers to the most local level of the health system. The form of services provided to a locality will vary according to each country's political, economic, social, cultural and epidemiological patterns.

Community (Medieval Towns)

The Latin term communitas was frequently used in late medieval England to characterize (among other associations) the residents of a town as a group, in a way that implied common action, common obligations or responsibility, or common rights or privileges. It was often used too vaguely to let us know if at any time a technical meaning – such as restriction to the burgess or enfranchised element of the town population – was intended. The town community is to some degree a later expression of the folkmoot and is often seen acting as an entity, before the law formally recognized it as corporate entity. Occasionally one hears of the "commune", which means something similar but connotes a sworn association whose goal is the achievement of self-government; this was more a continental manifestation which could pursue its aims through violent rebellion against noble overlords, and so English kings tried to prevent this extreme expression of community within their realm.
See also:
* Political values and attitudes
For further information about communes see:
* Information Please Encyclopedia: "commune"

Community (Nature)

A group of plants and animals living in a specific region living under relatively similar conditions; and the region or habitat in which they live, i.e., forest community.

Community (Networking)

This is the SNMP equivalent of a password.

Community (Physical Geography)

Refers to all the populations of interacting species found in a specific area or region at a certain time.

Community (Sociology)

A group of people who share a common sense of identity and interact with one another on a sustained basis.

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