Consumption
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This structure, the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, symbolizes the rise of consumer culture and the start of industrial design.
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Consumption may refer to:
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Biology
- Consumption (ecology), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms
- The disease tuberculosis, historically
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Social sciences
- Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use
- Consumption function, an economic formula
- Consumption (sociology) of resources, associated with social class, identity, group membership, and age
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