structural similarity

collocation in English

meaningsofstructuralandsimilarity

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structural
adjective
uk
/ˈstrʌk.tʃər.əl/
us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the way in which parts of a system or object ...
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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 ofstructuralandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstructural similarity

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Whatever effectstructuralsimilarityexerts on learning, it does not change with the age of the learner.
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This recursive call enables the computation of thestructuralsimilaritybetween cases.
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Such astructuralsimilaritymay have an influence on the reanalysis of incorrect prosodic structures.
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In yet other applications, cases are represented by complex structures (such as graphs or first-order terms) and retrieval requires an assessment of theirstructuralsimilarity.
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After all, why isstructuralsimilaritynot enough?
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This difference based onstructuralsimilarityapplied to learners at all ages of acquisition.
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But thestructuralsimilarityhardly implies that the respective arguments are equally persuasive or unpersuasive.
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Differences instructuralsimilaritybetween living and nonliving things may contribute to the differences in identification that can be observed between these categories of object.
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Viewed close-up, the immune process displays astructuralsimilaritywith biological evolution.
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Moreover, the mode of binding of a ligand does not always correlate with sequence orstructuralsimilarity.
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No reliable automatic tools for this purpose exists at this moment, becausestructuralsimilarityat the tertiary level does not necessarily imply similarity in function.
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This measure may misrepresent "structuralsimilarity" because it concentrates on gross contour overlap at the expense of internal detail.
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What isstructuralsimilarityand is it greater in living things?
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Does "contour overlap" adequately capture the degree ofstructuralsimilaritywithin categories?
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In this context, the significance of maternal vocalization stems from itsstructuralsimilarityto the preexisting vocal behaviors of infants.
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To use the concept ofstructuralsimilarityin the description of the mean flow properties, two assumptions must be made.
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As might be expected, the computation of derived features or use ofstructuralsimilarityis computationally expensive.
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There need be no sequence orstructuralsimilaritybetween the proteins that share a phylogenetic distribution pattern.
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