distinctive feature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistinctiveandfeature
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distinctive
adjective
uk/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/us/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/
Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from ...
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feature
noun
uk/ˈfiː.tʃər/us/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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(Definition ofdistinctiveandfeaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Adistinctivefeatureof qualitative methods is the flexibility of research designs, particularly where ethnographic methods using a range of techniques are involved.
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The mostdistinctivefeatureof quantum theory - the interference of probabilities - is thus expressed equally well in position space and momentum space.
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Specifically, it is maintained that speech is encoded in the brain as a sequence ofdistinctivefeatureconfigurations.
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Like thedistinctivefeaturerepresentation, these configurations may be more or less specified.
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The mostdistinctivefeatureof these persons is their perception of good education as vital to ensure their economic mobility and access to global opportunities.
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Onedistinctivefeaturewhich should provide clues to the sources of human infection is seasonality.
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Thedistinctivefeatureof the new membrane is its low density.
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Similar rebuildings are noted for most of the substantial roundhouses that are such adistinctivefeatureof this period.
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Since time does not share thisdistinctivefeature, the impossibility of an infinite time has not been demonstrated.
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The mostdistinctivefeatureof this model was arrangement of the leg spring.
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Anotherdistinctivefeatureof this book is the formality with which the authors present their ideas and findings.
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I think we should say instead that it is adistinctivefeatureof modern morality.
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The female lineage is adistinctivefeatureof the culture of wax modelling.
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The use of commercially available machinetranslation systems to obtain the parallel corpus to be annotated is the majordistinctivefeatureof this approach.
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Adistinctivefeatureof the project was the use of a range of technologies to compose, develop and perform musical ideas.
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Thedistinctivefeatureis the hybrid nature of these languages which function mainly as a lingua franca (p. 56).
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A few optional values are selectable for eachdistinctivefeaturein order to satisfy specific customer requirements.
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