However, there is no evidence that pall mall involved the croquet stroke which is the distinguishing characteristic of the modern game.

A distinguishing feature of most Compactrons is the placement of the evacuation tip on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with " miniature " tubes, and a characteristic 3 / 4 " diameter circle pin pattern.

A distinguishing characteristic of the EC is the lack of cell bodies where layer IV should be ; this layer is called the lamina dissecans.

What is the differentia of the species, that is, the distinguishing characteristic of human being that other animals do not have?

A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.

The fundamental distinguishing characteristic of intuitionism is its interpretation of what it means for a mathematical statement to be true.

The distinguishing characteristic of logic ( the art of non-contradictory identification ) indicates the nature of the actions ( actions of consciousness required to achieve a correct identification ) and their goal ( knowledge )— while omitting the length, complexity or specific steps of the process of logical inference, as well as the nature of the particular cognitive problem involved in any given instance of using logic.

' A concept is a mental integration of two or more units possessing the same distinguishing characteristic ( s ), with their particular measurements omitted.

Postmodern philosophy is often particularly skeptical about simple binary oppositions characteristic of structuralism, emphasizing the problem of the philosopher cleanly distinguishing knowledge from ignorance, social progress from reversion, dominance from submission, and presence from absence.

::" This last is the distinguishing characteristic of classes, and justifies us in treating ẑ ( ψz ) as the class determined by function ψẑ.

Because the key distinguishing characteristic Marsh noted for Pteranodon was its lack of teeth, any toothless pterosaur jaw fragment, wherever it was found in the world, tended to be attributed to Pteranodon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

While Lindgren almost immediately became a much appreciated writer, the irreverent attitude towards adult authority that is a distinguishing characteristic of many of her characters has occasionally drawn the ire of some conservatives.

The Ionian cities formed a religious and cultural ( as opposed to a political or military ) confederacy, the Ionian League, of which participation in the Panionic festival was a distinguishing characteristic.

They are known as " mail-cheeked " fishes due to their distinguishing characteristic, the suborbital stay: a backwards extension of the third circumorbital bone ( part of the lateral head / cheek skeleton, below the eye socket ) across the cheek to the preoperculum, to which it is connected in most species.

Ancient Roman art depicted gods as idealized humans, shown with characteristic distinguishing features ( e. g., Zeus ' thunderbolt ).

Apart from specific instrumentation, a distinguishing characteristic of bluegrass is vocal harmony featuring two, three, or four parts, often with a dissonant or modal sound in the highest voice ( see modal frame ), a style described as the " high, lonesome sound.

* A mark, sign, token, an emblem, a badge, symbol, distinguishing mark, characteristic ;

The presence or absence of an active β-galactosidase may be detected by X-gal, which produces a characteristic blue dye when cleaved by β-galactosidase, thereby providing an easy means of distinguishing the presence or absence of cloned product in a plasmid.

The distinguishing characteristic is the reproductive structure known as a cone produced by all Pinales.

Symptoms may include fever and headache, but the distinguishing characteristic of this disease is attacks of severe pain in the lower chest, often on one side.

However, Edwards does not consider the actions of the figures on the pottery to be a distinguishing characteristic for differentiation between maenads and nymphs.

A distinguishing characteristic of the new town plan was unusually wide streets, reportedly to prevent a fire in one block from easily spreading to another.

Wide streets were a distinguishing characteristic of the town ; the two main thoroughfares ( Main and Austin Streets ) were 100 feet ( 30 m ) wide, and other streets were eighty feet ( 24 m ) wide.

The white-pink mycelium on infected leaf blades is a distinguishing characteristic of the Microdochium nivale pathogen.

You had grown up at a time when the most distinguishing mark of a lady was the noli me tangere writ plain across her face.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

There was some concern however that the name might be confused with boron and in particular the distinguishing of the names of their respective oxo-ions bohrate and borate.

Dooms primary distinguishing feature at the time of its release was its realistic 3D graphics, then unparalleled by other real-time-rendered games running on consumer-level hardware.

The distinguishing feature of some of their films was a deliberate attempt to use resolutely theatrical-type light comedy playing that was directed towards the audience.

Its primary distinguishing feature was that the disk heads were not withdrawn completely from the stack of disk platters when the drive was powered down.

John Painter states that phrase " who was called Christ " is used by Josephus in this passage " by way of distinguishing him from others of the same name such as the high priest Jesus son of Damneus, or Jesus son of Gamaliel " both having been mentioned by Josephus in this context.

He demanded strict dialectical training as the means of distinguishing the true from the false, and asserted that logic ( or the syllogism ) furthered the knowledge of catholic verities ; ignorance of logic was the reason why men misunderstood Scripture, since men overlooked the connection – the distinction between idea and appearance.

Popper's concern was not with distinguishing meaningful from meaningless statements, but distinguishing scientific from metaphysical statements.

Although some ruling elite were illiterate, literacy was an important distinguishing mark of the elite, and communications skills were politically important.

The word Mormon is often associated with polygamy ( or plural marriage ), which was a distinguishing practice of many early Mormons ; however it was renounced by the LDS Church in 1890,

The distinguishing mark of a traditional top-40 station was the use of a hyperexcited disc-jockey, and high tempo jingles.

Theaetetus was, like Plato, a disciple of Theodorus's ; he worked on distinguishing different kinds of incommensurables, and was thus arguably a pioneer in the study of number systems.

The anachronism of Noah's distinguishing between " clean " animals ( seven of each ) and " unclean " animals ( two of each ) when loading the animals onto the ark, which was only established under the later Law of Moses, supports the Documentary Hypothesis which posits that the authors of the Bible retroactively applied laws to older myths to tie them into a unified religion Judaism.

This was highlighted in January 2006, when Nationals Senator Julian McGauran defected to the Liberals, saying that there was " no longer any real distinguishing policy or philosophical difference ".

In 1536 he was created cardinal-bishop of Palestrina by Pope Paul III, by whom he was employed on several important legations, notably as Paul's legate and first president of the Council of Trent ( 1545-47 ) and then at Bologna ( 1547-48 ), distinguishing himself as a brilliant canonist ( expert in Church law ) rather than as a theologian.

Some of the significant achievements of early Muslim philosophers included the development of a strict science of citation, the isnad or " backing "; the development of a method of open inquiry to disprove claims, the ijtihad, which could be generally applied to many types of questions ( although which to apply it to is an ethical question ); the willingness to both accept and challenge authority within the same process ; recognition that science and philosophy are both subordinate to morality, and that moral choices are prior to any investigation or concern with either ; the separation of theology ( kalam ) and law ( shariah ) during the early Abbasid period, a precursor to secularism ; the distinction between religion and philosophy, marking the beginning of secular thought ; the beginning of a peer review process ; early ideas on evolution ; the beginnings of the scientific method, an important contribution to the philosophy of science ; the introduction of temporal modal logic and inductive logic ; the beginning of social philosophy, including the formulation of theories on social cohesion and social conflict ; the beginning of the philosophy of history ; the development of the philosophical novel and the concepts of empiricism and tabula rasa ; and distinguishing between essence and existence.

Drawing a distinction between the manufacture of goods and the regulation of certain goods themselves " inherently evil ", the Court maintained that the issue did not concern the power to keep certain immoral products out of the stream of interstate commerce, distinguishing previous cases upholding Congress's power to control lottery schemes, prostitution, and liquor.

The main concern is distinguishing between a benign nevus, a dysplastic nevus, and a melanoma.