SELF-ORGANISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-organisation mean? 

• SELF-ORGANISATION (noun)
  The noun SELF-ORGANISATION has 1 sense:

1. organizing yourself (especially organizing your own labor union)

  Familiarity information: SELF-ORGANISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-ORGANISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organizing yourself (especially organizing your own labor union)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

self-organisation; self-organization

Hypernyms ("self-organisation" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

 Context examples 

New research shows that all the cells in the plant coordinate partly through something called local self-organisation.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)