essential feature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofessentialandfeature
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essential
adjective
uk/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/us/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
necessary ...
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feature
noun
uk/ˈfiː.tʃər/us/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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(Definition ofessentialandfeaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofessential feature
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As discussed in a previous section, anessentialfeatureis the absence of an a priori given global and common time.
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Laughing in the face of adversity is anessentialfeatureof the maintenance of culture.
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The onlyessentialfeatureis that there are two discrete relative dispositions of the subunits.
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Theessentialfeatureof the dissociative disorders has been identified as a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness.
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In other words, theessentialfeatureof path dependence is not the nature of the outcome.
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The choice of primary outcomes was also anessentialfeatureof this trial.
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The secondessentialfeatureof modern personhood is the possession of a bounded body.
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Theessentialfeaturethat the problem can be solved completely using a kinematic description has been preserved.
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The interaction among various perceptions seems to be anessentialfeatureif we want to maximise the amount of information conveyed to the spectator actor.
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Stated differently, stochastic laws do not allow for a theory of the event, anessentialfeatureof self-organising systems.
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The new technologies thus became anessentialfeaturein their effort to increase the volume of production with a smaller work force.
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It also relates to the idea that an event's cause is anessentialfeatureof it.
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The one-dimensional character of the propagation is anessentialfeatureof the above discussion.
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The interrelationship between environmental regulations and industrial location is anessentialfeature of economic development for developing countries.
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The procedure is greatly facilitated by the use of a covariant formalism, but this is a convenient rather thanessentialfeatureof the method.
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Theessentialfeatureof coalescent theory is that, for neutral alleles, the ancestry of only the sample of genes need be modelled.
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Theessentialfeatureof the evaluation transformer model of reduction is that of needing to evaluate an expression to a specified extent.
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Maintaining the skill base of the service is anessentialfeatureof succession planning.
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This paper examines the country's emerging two-party system as anessentialfeatureaffecting prospects for democratic deepening and consolidation.
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It is not controversial to say that modules with enforced interfaces and representation-hiding are anessentialfeatureof a modern programming language.
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