1 a person who acquires goods and services for his or her own personal needs. Compare â producer â 6. 2 a person or thing that consumes. 3 usually pl (Ecology) an organism, esp. an animal, within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals.
Characterization of a Sandy Soil by Three Sampling Methods 365. The challenge in defining the variability in the soil is not only how to define these. natural bodies, but also how to quantify the constituents within the soil.
, MTech from IIT Madras. Updated Jan 15, 2016 Â· Upvoted by. , Masters Student of Geotechnical Engineering. Nearly 120 years ago a guy named Allen Hazen set out on a goal to identify, from a soil mass, the particular size/diameter of soil grains that can be used to speculate various properties of the whole soil mass.