key characteristic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyandcharacteristic
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key
adjective
uk/kiː/us/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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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 ofkeyandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey characteristic
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It seems to me akeycharacteristicof this work that any of these can be convincing.
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Thekeycharacteristicof bodiliness now seemed to be that of existence.
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Akeycharacteristicof myths is that they are nonfalsifiable.
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At that level, akeycharacteristicof the process of individual functioning is intentionality, which is linked to emotions and values.
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In addition, it is crucial for what is identified as the secondkeycharacteristicof modernity, namely the disembedding of social institutions.
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Like others, they accepted the ratio of embryo and seed size as akeycharacteristicof seeds.
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Recent evidence suggests that dual-task interference may also be akeycharacteristicof cognitive dysfunction in individuals at genetic risk for schizophrenia.
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Akeycharacteristicof the experiment concerns the use of domain knowledge for multimodal reasoning with different types of representations.
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Akeycharacteristicof social protection systems is the degree to which they promote or alleviate social exclusion of particular groups of elders.
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Akeycharacteristicof seeds with persistent seed banks is their ability to retain viability over very long periods.
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Thekeycharacteristicof advanced nursing practice, in a discussion of the research on this topic, was found to be the legitimate exercise of authority to develop autonomous practice.
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Mobility - associated with dangerous vagabondage as well as lack of civilisation - was akeycharacteristic.
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Categoryspecific deficits can be better explained by a theory that takes inferential relations among atomic concepts to be thekeycharacteristicof conceptual representation and processing.
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Akeycharacteristiccommon to these various approaches towards 'law in action' is that they search for various interchanges between 'the social' and 'the legal'.
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At the age of 85 years, they seemed to notice very clearly that their body was a temporary sketch in existence : itskeycharacteristicwas variability, the tendency to change.
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The symptomatic pattern of voiding can be akeycharacteristicof different types of incontinence, and is therefore an important aid to diagnostic judgement, leading to treatment decisions.
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That flexibility and responsiveness to individual needs is akeycharacteristicof the new deal for the young unemployed as a whole.
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All through, therefore, range has been emphasised as akeycharacteristic.
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Itskeycharacteristicis that police officers and police stations do not know when visits are likely to occur.
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Gender is akeycharacteristicof most of the statistics we collect and of much of the information we publish.
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