behavior-comportament: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is behavior? behavior is comportament

What is comportament?

  • The manner in which one behaves.

    La manera en què un es comporta.

  • The actions or reactions of a person or animal in response to external or internal stimuli.

    Les accions o reaccions d'una persona o animal en resposta a estímuls externs o interns.

  • One of these actions or reactions: "a hormone . . . known to directly control sex-specific reproductive and parenting behaviors in a wide variety of vertebrates” ( Thomas Maugh II).

    Una d'aquestes accions o reaccions: "una hormona... conegut per controlar directament els comportaments reproductius i de criança específics del sexe en una àmplia varietat de vertebrats" (Thomas Maugh II).

  • The manner in which something functions or operates: the faulty behavior of a computer program; the behavior of dying stars.

    La manera en què alguna cosa funciona o opera: el comportament defectuós d'un programa informàtic; el comportament de les estrelles moribundes.

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