fundamental similarity

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandsimilarity

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fundamental
adjective
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/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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similarity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us
/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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(Definition offundamentalandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This would imply that infracommunities in fish, bird and mammals share afundamentalsimilarity, that of random assembly.
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It may well be that differences are less germane than thefundamentalsimilarity: the trauma that both caused their victims is comparable.
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In addition, they point out thefundamentalsimilaritybetween funded and pay-as-you-go schemes in that both transfer funds from active workers to inactive retired people.
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The process, by which compilation scores were assembled, bears afundamentalsimilarityto the music editor's creation of temp tracks.
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Evidence from my survey of secondary school students provides further evidence of thefundamentalsimilarity in the two districts' current economic fortunes and transformational trajectories.
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Our system is different, but thefundamentalsimilarityremains.
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Because of thisfundamentalsimilarityto the cell membrane, vesicles have been used extensively to study the properties of lipid bilayers.
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There is a duality, orfundamentalsimilarity, between merge- and distribution-based algorithms that can aid in thinking about sorting and other external memory algorithms.
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Moreover, we do not know how closely the lack of symptomatic distinctiveness corresponds to fundamental similarities in aetiology.
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Because of thefundamentalsimilarityof loops and recursive programs, proving partial correctness of loops with invariants is very similar to proving correctness of recursive programs via induction.
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By highlighting minor variations within the fundamental similarities in responses to these issues, these essays illuminate both the history of widowhood and the nature of the surrounding cultures.
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Now the focus is more on finding a common language, in order to allow for a comparative analysis and to uncover fundamental similarities and differences in this field.
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It is true that the geography may be different and that temperaments may be different, but, nevertheless, there are fundamental similarities from which we could learn.
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Most balls have fundamental similarities: all will offer guests a variety of food, entertainment, and a selection of alcoholic drinks.
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A pox-like virus is a likely ancestor because of its fundamental similarities with eukaryotic nuclei.
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There are significant, fundamental similarities between the human and chicken genomes.
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These fundamental similarities and differences provide a unifying theme, sometimes allowing the principles learned from studying one cell type to be extrapolated and generalized to other cell types.
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