fundamental characteristic

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandcharacteristic

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/us
/ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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(Definition offundamentalandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Depressed mood, thefundamentalcharacteristicof the disorder, is often experienced or expressed as decreased positive affect.
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Comparative studies of electoral institutions have largely neglected afundamentalcharacteristicof most of the world's electoral systems: malapportionment.
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The proclivity for taking large risks, against heavy odds, was afundamentalcharacteristicof the early modern merchant.
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Thefundamentalcharacteristicof market relations is reciprocity, and reciprocity is the governing principle of civil society.
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Other images tended to ignore the notion of play and spontaneity, afundamentalcharacteristicif physical activity is to have a worthwhile meaning for self.
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So anotherfundamentalcharacteristicof representational models is that they represent features only to some approximate degree of accuracy.
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Finally, 1 (u) < v1 () is thefundamentalcharacteristicfield.
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A more radical view may be that such continuous re-entrant information flow between processing components and cortical areas is afundamentalcharacteristicof cortical processing.
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Terminator technology alters afundamentalcharacteristicof seed-its self-reproducing nature- and threatens to change agricultural practices that have been the norm for centuries.
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Analogue coding appears to have advantages over distributed binary coding for capturing thisfundamentalcharacteristicof human cognition.
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Even after decades of reasonably robust growth in the aggregate economy, agricultural expansion continues to be afundamentalcharacteristicof economic activity, with severe environmental consequences.
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Anhedonia, anotherfundamentalcharacteristic, is a diminished capacity to experience enjoyment.
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For my part, that is afundamentalcharacteristicof our society.
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Thefundamentalcharacteristiccommon to almost all cases of low pay is the relatively low degree of skill that individuals have to offer.
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It is still afundamentalcharacteristicof a free society that property rights should be respected and protected.
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In my opinion consumption is thefundamentalcharacteristicof the consumer society.
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But from our point of view, at any rate, we have got to recognise thisfundamentalcharacteristicof the other place.
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But thefundamentalcharacteristicof truisms is that they are true.
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We know that, on matters of principle, it is afundamentalcharacteristicof the new alliance that it is different from other parties.
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