formal characteristics

collocation in English

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formal
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.məl/us
/ˈfɔːr.məl/
public ...
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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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(Definition offormalandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But again, he locates his explanation not in the formal characteristics of their music but rather in the discursive strategies that coalesced around it.
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Although exhibiting a strongly contrasting, lyrical expressive character, this section is linked with its predecessor in the use of similar developmental procedures and formal characteristics.
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Analysis of the formal characteristics of the home allows a deeper and broader understanding of familiar concepts.
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A debate has been raging about the extent to which formal characteristics (morphophonology) and semantic characteristics (natural gender) affect the acquisition of gender assignment.
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Clearly semantic and formal characteristics must be considered if it is to be argued that adjective is a universal word class.
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A preferable position, a priori, is that only the differing formal characteristics of the languages must be acquired; the behavior of the systems follows directly.
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Television and popular music may be understood to collaborate in specific ways that relate to both the social and formal characteristics of each medium.
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Quite generally, the strategies speakers acquire for assigning the agent role are products of the formal characteristics of the individual languages, as in these examples.
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It noted that, while these bodies had certain formal characteristics in common, they were in fact very diverse.
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The strict formal characteristics of his non-experimental and non-improvisational, highly controlled music requires superior technical abilities on the part of performers.
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Compared with other regional styles, the gyeongtori style has a greater variety of individual melodies, but is more fixed in its formal characteristics.
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Ornamentation includes aesthetic techniques but also formal characteristics that comprise a sermons structure.
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Biological market theory consists of five formal characteristics which present a basis for altruism. 1.
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These holdings did not have all of the formal characteristics of a state, being neither compact nor indivisible.
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This terminological overlap makes it difficult to distinguish formal characteristics of the cassation as a musical genre.
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The leisure songs associated with sailors are labeled simply as sea songs, but they have no consistent formal characteristics.
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Most often the connections are made by reference to shared formal characteristics: faceting of form, spatial ambiguity, transparency, and multiplicity.
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Describing these styles in terms of western musical theory is problematic insofar as tunings and formal characteristics differ among individual players.
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He advocated changes in the way mathematics was taught to reinforce the formal characteristics of the discipline.
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