Sessility, or sessile, may refer to:
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Sessility (motility)
Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion. Sessile organisms for which natural ''motility'' is absent are normally immobile. This is distinct from the botanical concept of sessility, w ...
, organisms which are not able to move about
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Sessility (botany)
In botany, sessility (meaning "sitting", used in the sense of "resting on the surface") is a characteristic of plant parts (such as flowers and leaves) that have no stalk. Plant parts can also be described as subsessile, that is, not completely ...
, flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant
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Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that lack a stalk
* Sessility (in crystallography),
dislocation
In materials science, a dislocation or Taylor's dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect or irregularity within a crystal structure that contains an abrupt change in the arrangement of atoms. The movement of dislocations allow atoms to ...
that is not able to move in the slip plane (as opposed to glissile)
See also
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Sedentism
In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time. , the large majority of people belong to sedentary cultures. In evolutionary anthropology and ar ...
, in cultural anthropology, the practice of living in one place for a long time
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