formal similarity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformalandsimilarity
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formal
adjective
uk/ˈfɔː.məl/us/ˈfɔːr.məl/
public ...
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noun[C or U]
uk/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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(Definition offormalandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofformal similarity
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The former gave way to the system of recursive rewrite rules in the 1960s, obscuring theformalsimilarityof the two processes.
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One consequence of the present nonavailability of such aformalsimilaritymetric is that it renders some comparisons unsafe.
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We collect some properties of the regularized problem and clarify itsformalsimilarityto the graph setting.
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Here we want to consider a different finite element scheme which exploits the above-describedformalsimilarityto the graph case.
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At the very least, one could object that the notion of multiple passivization is misapplied here, as theformalsimilarityis plausibly regarded as concord.
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For example,formalsimilaritybetween translation words seems to have an influence in the naming performance.
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Theformalsimilaritybetween (5) and (8) is interesting.
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Thisformalsimilaritywill be pur sued in another paper.
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All these constructions obviously share some semantic andformalsimilarity: they all portray possessive relations, and they all comprise a possessive and a noun.
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The semantic approach thus does not provide a convincing account of theformalsimilaritybetween nouns and adjectives.
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However, thisformalsimilaritynotwithstanding, possessing a complex-antiderivative is a much more restrictive condition than its real counterpart.
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Observe the faintformalsimilaritywith first-order resolution in mathematical logic.
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Yet the formal similarities between a war and a civil litigation could not conceal the deep moral rift between them.
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Despite some formal similarities between efficiency conditions in propositions 1 and 2, their implications to provision of correlated local and global stock externalities differ fundamentally.
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The construction of such distributions has aformalsimilarityto that of mixture distributions, with either infinite summations or integrals replacing the finite summations used for finite mixtures.
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Importantly, apart from some formal similarities these vessels vary considerably in their context of use from region to region.
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There are a number of formal similarities between the two kinds of fields.
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On the basis of these formal similarities they have suggested the possibility of a cultural link between the two areas.
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