メタボリズム

noun

metabolism

Biological sense: the chemical processes that occur within a living organism to maintain life. Common in medical and health contexts.

• 運うん動どうするとメタボリズムが活かっ発ぱつになる。

  Exercise activates your metabolism.

noun

Metabolism (architectural movement)

Refers to the Japanese architectural movement of the 1960s that envisioned cities as living, growing organisms. Capitalized in English to distinguish from the biological term.

• メタボリズムは、黒くろ川かわ紀き章しょうや菊きく竹たけ清きよ訓のりらが中ちゅう心しんとなった建けん築ちく運うん動どうだ。

  Metabolism was an architectural movement led by figures such as Kisho Kurokawa and Kiyonori Kikutake.