Usually means: Purpose or design in nature.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. teleology: Merriam-Webster
  2. teleology: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. teleology: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. teleology: Collins English Dictionary
  5. teleology: Vocabulary.com
  6. teleology: Wordnik
  7. teleology: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. teleology: Wiktionary
  9. teleology: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. teleology: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. teleology: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. teleology: Dictionary.com
  13. teleology: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Teleology: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Teleology: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. teleology: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. teleology: Rhymezone
  18. Teleology: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. teleology: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. teleology: FreeDictionary.org
  21. teleology: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. teleology: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. teleology: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Teleology: Wordnik

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. teleology: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Teleology: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. teleology: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. teleology: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Teleology: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. teleology: Medical dictionary
  5. Teleology: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. teleology: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Teleology: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See teleologies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (teleology)

noun:  (philosophy) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.
noun:  (by extension) An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena.
noun:  The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of nature to explain an occurrence.

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