essential role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofessentialandrole
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essential
adjective
uk/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/us/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
necessary ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofessentialandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofessential role
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It has been found that radiation transport plays anessentialroleat stagnation phase, determining the final distribution of density and temperature.
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They already show the high complexity of the chemistry occurring in the atmosphere, and theessentialroleof aerosols.
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In doing so, it reveals theessentialroleof inductive reasoning in the reproduction of tacit conventions.
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This evidence indicates that this pathway has anessentialrolein early myelination events, and possibly in maintenance of myelin.
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In these arguments, specific investments into exporting capacity play anessentialrole.
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These provide a more coarse-grained view of the sense distinctions which plays anessentialrolein evaluation as well as applications.
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The use of the comparative method has played anessentialrolein that respect.
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It is worth noticing theessentialroleof the interpretation of polymorphic types as intersections.
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The following lemma will play anessentialrolein the rest of the paper.
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Shortcomings are largely resolved because the family, and especially women, play anessentialrolein providing welfare for family members.
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In this sense, the state further recognised theessentialroleof private savings accounts in the pension system.
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In each case, the response of savings to technological change plays anessentialrolein understanding subsequent effects.
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In imperative programming languages, variables again play anessentialrole, though one variable may denote different values during computation.
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Invariant sets together with the orbits leading to or away from them play anessentialrolein the organization of the state space.
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How did families come to play anessentialrolein its reproduction?
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Its central idea is that poetry plays anessentialrolein the framework of history.
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