peculiar property

collocation in English

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peculiar
adjective
uk
/pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/us
/pɪˈkjuːl.jɚ/
unusual and strange, sometimes in an ...
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property
noun
uk
/ˈprɒp.ə.ti/us
/ˈprɑː.pɚ.t̬i/
an object or objects that belong ...
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(Definition ofpeculiarandpropertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Equations (4a) and (4b) have apeculiarproperty.
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What may not be doubted is that they claimed and, for a period, successfully defended a mostpeculiarpropertyright.
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It has thepeculiarpropertyof eating starch and giving off alcohol.
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Certain of the tips have apeculiarproperty, in that they can be converted into cement.
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Thispeculiarpropertyis crucial for the phenomenon of "treadmilling" (see below).
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These points have thepeculiarpropertyof allowing objects to orbit around them, despite lacking an object to orbit.
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Bimodal distributions have thepeculiarpropertythat - unlike the unimodal distributions - the mean may be a more robust sample estimator than the median.
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This is apeculiarpropertyof information goods whereby the process of evaluating utility may require the very process of consumption.
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Thispeculiarpropertyis used in some applications, like high speed devices where the characteristic tunnelling probability changes as rapidly as the bias voltage.
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This shock is of interest because of its peculiar properties and because it is generally more complex than the parallel shock.
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My point here has to do both with the peculiar properties of waxworks and with the nature of an exhibition.
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But it is always forgotten that the gas that is suitable for use in war has to have some very peculiar properties.
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It is immediately apparent that the city has peculiar properties in that buildings appear and disappear overnight and the entire population is composed of robots.
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Since it does so it has very peculiar properties.
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It states that the behavior of those variables is subject to general constraints, that are common to all materials, not the peculiar properties of particular materials.
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Marggraf showed that alumina is one of the constituents of alum, but that this earth possesses peculiar properties, and is one of the ingredients in common clay.
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