Experts generally recommend seven to nine hours a night for healthy adults. Sleep scientists say new guidelines are needed to take into account an abundance of recent research in the field and to reflect that Americans are on average sleeping less than they did in the past.
Synonyms: inhabitation, domicile, habitation, home, dwelling, inhabitancy, abode, dwelling house. habitation. Abode, dwelling, and habitation are used with little difference of meaning to denote the place where one habitually lives; abode and habitation belong to the poetic or elevated style. Even dwelling is not used in familiar speech; a person says my house , my home , or more formally my residence ..
(hÄb'Ä­-tÄt') The area or natural environment in which an organism or population normally lives. A habitat is made up of physical factors such as soil, moisture, range of temperature, and availability of light as well as biotic factors such as the availability of food and the presence of predators. A habitat is not necessarily a geographic areaâfor a parasitic organism it is the body of its host or even a cell within the host's body.