MEMBRANE 2)5)
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A thin film of chemical or biological matter that constitutes the specifically permeable boundary between a system and its environment.
Membranes are interfaces which selectively in space and time allow or inhibit the transference of inputs and outputs from the environment to the system and vice-versa. Membranes are as much connective devices as separators.
Some cosmologists and physicists recently started to use the strange neologism "brane"(shortshrift for membrane) to signify the hypothetical divisions in-between the numerous dimensions now postulated in some theories about the universe (or universes)
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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