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n. (defining characteristic English)
Usage examples of "defining characteristics".
The girl watched her, and Ayla was going to show her the defining characteristics of the vegetation so she could find it herself, but decided to wait until after she understood their use.
Theks had no real defining characteristics, but this one was the same size as that Thek.
The hope was that amid the challenges of life on an untamed primitive world the colonists and their starborn progeny would recapture the drive and energy that once had been defining characteristics of the human race, and thus bring about a rebirth of the human spirit—.
Even the ancient science stuff bore no defining characteristics, with the organic matter long since decayed.
Her fingers pushed the pen over the paper almost without conscious thought, sketching a series of open reading frames on chromosomes 18 and 20 that might bear a relation to the SHEVA genes, previously identified as possible HERVs but turning out not to have the defining characteristics of retrovirus fragments.
He had no strong or defining characteristics - he was of medium height with rather pallid skin, hair thinning on top but not completely gone.
One fact that appears to be sufficiently striking to report at this early date, however, is that one of the defining characteristics of the religion is an advanced development in telekinesis.
It has been said that one of the defining characteristics of a wizard is paranoia: the suspicion that most the other living things in Faerun are against you, watching and preparing for the best chance to strike you down when you are asleep, hurt, under attack from another foe, or otherwise vulnerable.
Her desire for fairness and justice was one of her defining characteristics.