desirable attribute

collocation in English

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desirable
adjective
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/dɪˈzaɪə.rə.bəl/us
/dɪˈzaɪr.ə.bəl/
worth having and wanted by ...
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attribute
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæt.rɪ.bjuːt/us
/ˈæt.rɪ.bjuːt/
a quality or characteristic that someone or ...
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My eighth and lastdesirableattributeis this.
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The most biologically abundant of these elements is carbon, which has thedesirableattributeof forming multiple, stable covalent bonds.
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Large output resistance is adesirableattributeof a current source because favorable current division sends most of the current to the load.
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Consumer preference for organic food based on perceived desirable attributes and characteristics has been widely documented.
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In this regard, low cost and low weight are desirable attributes.
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Speed is the mostdesirableattributeof this method because not much thought about formatting is needed to form the layout and create enough space for more notes.
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Outcome-based competencies were used together with other strategies to progress students' learning through successive levels with the aim of developing essential and desirable attributes of the respective professions.
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Weak ties and the persistence of disagreement in discussion networks are good for the development of democratically desirable attributes.
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The tasks require respondents to "trade off" more and less desirable attributes by indicating a preference between two or more "products" (test scenarios) that comprise combinations of the attributes.
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Great opportunity lies in the fact that pasture-based agriculture can bundle these four desirable attributes into a single product.
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The full list of desirable attributes for the service would be long.
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Add all those desirable attributes together, plus a few others, and what do you get?
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One of the most desirable attributes of polyurethanes is their ability to be turned into foam.
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Next, those genes are filtered for desirable attributes that would make good vaccine targets such as outer membrane proteins.
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Marriage criteria began to weigh intelligence and education as desirable attributes in a wife, right along with physical attractiveness.
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A considerable amount of data quality research involves investigating and describing various categories of desirable attributes (or dimensions) of data.
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Although they have many desirable attributes as model organisms, these flies have trouble dealing with some experimental bacteria that should not be pathogens.
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The effect of the process gives fibers, yarns or fabric dimensional stability and, very often, other desirable attributes like higher volume, wrinkle resistance or temperature resistance.
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