distinguishing characteristic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistinguishingandcharacteristic
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distinguishing
adjective
uk/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃɪŋ/us/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃɪŋ/
A distinguishing mark or feature is one that makes someone or something different from similar 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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Anotherdistinguishingcharacteristicseems to be their learning strategies, and these can be divided into two sets.
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Insofar as we emphasise lack of implementational concerns as thedistinguishingcharacteristicof a knowledge level model, this includes the conceptual, ontological, and epistemological levels.
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Thedistinguishingcharacteristicof intensional languages is that they have context switching operators.
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Itsdistinguishingcharacteristicwas a double-skinned rubble wall infilled with earth in depths up to 1.8 metres.
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Thedistinguishingcharacteristicof this method is that it includes a set of inductively derived equations that explicitly include experiential equations.
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Anotherdistinguishingcharacteristicof this and other recognition interactions is the close geometrical and chemical fit between the ligand and binding pocket.
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The obviousdistinguishingcharacteristicof delays is that they refer to the timing rather than the quality of transposition.
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A seconddistinguishingcharacteristicof societies is the set of constraints they impose on the behavior of the agents, commonly known as social laws, norms or conventions.
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Color is an obviousdistinguishingcharacteristicof many terrain types.
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This observation has identified the most importantdistinguishingcharacteristicof the finite element method, namely, the construction of mode shapes with respect to convenient subregions of the complete field.
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Whereas the previously dominant group had chosen to ally themselves closely with the colonial government, adistinguishingcharacteristicof the new elite leaders was their stand against the government.
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Insofar as speech itself is uniquely human, this asymmetry might seem to be anotherdistinguishingcharacteristicof our species.
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Although a precise and unique definition of an agent has yet to be agreed upon, onedistinguishingcharacteristic of an agent is that it exhibits autonomous behavior.
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Frankfurt argues that thedistinguishingcharacteristicof the person is that he can form efficacious second-order desires.
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It is true that some are important, but it is not possible to find anydistinguishingcharacteristic.
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The right not to work individually, as with the right not to work collectively, is adistinguishingcharacteristicof a democracy.
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His onedistinguishingcharacteristicis his persistently anti-social behaviour.
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What, after all, has been thedistinguishingcharacteristicof our country in its dealings with what we may call subject populations?
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The most importantdistinguishingcharacteristicof crime is that it confers on the state the legal right to punish the offender.
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