It is the only group to feature an explicit remnant of the laryngeals, sounds that disappeared in late Proto-Indo-European.

The origins of the chaoskampf myth most likely lie in the Proto-Indo-European religion whose descendants almost all feature some variation of the story of a storm god fighting a sea serpent representing the clash between the forces of order and chaos.

Apart from the question of direct acquaintance of the bearers of Vedic culture with the ocean in the modern sense of the word, it is generally accepted that their worldview had the world encircled by oceans, a feature likely inherited from Proto-Indo-European mythology, with a " heavenly ocean " above the world, and a subterranean ocean of the underworld.

This feature is borderline distinctive in English, as in " wholly " vs. " holy ", but cases are limited to morpheme boundaries.

A sememe can be the meaning expressed by a morpheme, such as the English pluralizing morpheme-s, which carries the sememic feature plural.

Chiastic structure or concentric structure is a common feature of ancient Hebrew poetry and literature.

Probably the most important feature of a biomembrane is that it is a selectively permeable structure.

Most programming languages feature some sorts of library mechanism that allows data structure implementations to be reused by different programs.

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

The feature of " self-similarity ", for instance, is easily understood by analogy to zooming in with a lens or other device that zooms in on digital images to uncover finer, previously invisible, new structure.

More contemporary approaches such as Head-driven phrase structure grammar ( HPSG ) model syntactic constructions via the unification of typed feature structures, which are directed acyclic graphs.

While the economy is the base structure of society, it does not follow that everything in history is determined by the economy, just as every feature of a house is not determined by its foundations.

Reinitzer perceived that color changes in a derivative cholesteryl benzoate were not the most peculiar feature. Chemical structure of Cholesteryl benzoate molecule He found that cholesteryl benzoate does not melt in the same manner as other compounds, but has two melting points.

A common feature in mosques is the minaret, the tall, slender tower that usually is situated at one of the corners of the mosque structure.

Frequently ( as in the magnetopause and the magnetotail ) it is intuitively more useful to regard the distribution and flow of plasma as the primary effect, producing the observed magnetic structure, with the associated electric currents just one feature of those structures, more of a consistency requirement of the magnetic structure.

* Toxicophore, feature or group within a chemical structure that is thought to be responsible for the toxic property

An essential feature of a quango in the original definition was that it should not be a formal part of the state structure.

* To rebut the accusation of denying the catholicity and indefectibility of the Church, they say that, between the death of every Pope and the election of his successor, there is a sede vacante period during which there is no visible Head of the Church, and — while mainstream Catholics hold that, according to the dogmatic constitution Pastor aeternus of the First Vatican Council, which speaks of " perpetual successors " in the pontificate, there must be, apart from such transitory periods, a perpetual presence of the Bishop of Rome, not merely of his office — that the absence of a Pope has become a long-term feature of the Church's structure.

Feature-driven software projects may use a similar technique which is to employ a feature breakdown structure.

The B < sub > 10 </ sub > H < sub > 16 </ sub > structure ( diagram at right ) determined by Grimes, Wang, Lewin, and Lipscomb found a bond directly between two boron atoms without terminal hydrogens, a feature not previously seen in other boron hydrides.

He discovered that these polymers are crystalline materials and ascribed their crystallinity to a special feature of the polymer structure called stereoregularity.

These feature a long upwind section to accurately represent the wind speed and turbulence profile acting on the structure.

A further distinguishing feature of the group is the shape of the astragalus ( talus ), a bone in the ankle joint, which has a double-pulley structure.

The defining feature of this fungal group is the " ascus " ( from Greek: ( askos ), meaning " sac " or " wineskin "), a microscopic sexual structure in which nonmotile spores, called ascospores, are formed.

The structure of the bill, which contains seven to nine distinct horny plates, is another unifying feature, although there are differences within the order.

In many Gothic churches, particularly in France, and in the Perpendicular period of English Gothic architecture, the treatment of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery creates a strongly unifying feature that counteracts the horizontal divisions of the interior structure.

These chemical compounds are collectively known as retinoids, and possess the structural motif of all-trans retinol as a common feature in their structure.

Labyrinthodonts were distinguished mainly by their complex dentine infolding tooth structure, a feature shared with crossopterygian fish.

There was the end of his front-page feature story, with byline.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

The architectural feature, the caryatides upholding the portico, famous around the world as the Porch of the Maidens, was referred to airily by Mando as the Girls' Place.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

In fact, the antipathy to outward ceremonies hailed by modern exponents as so uniquely characteristic of the `` direct thinking '' Zennist was a feature of Taoism.

A peculiar feature of these Taoist thinkers, like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was the concept of feng liu ( lit.

The most prominent feature of emission and absorption spectra ( known experimentally since the middle of the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century ), was that these atomic spectra contained discrete lines.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Payment for jurors was introduced around 462 BC and is ascribed to Pericles, a feature described by Aristotle as fundamental to radical democracy ( Politics 1294a37 ).

The dominant feature during the Ottoman period was a mosque inside the Parthenon, complete with a minaret.

It had feature limitations such as being unable to output more than one channel of sound, ( and provided fewer Envelope-shaping options ) where the BBC was capable of three-way polyphony ( plus one noise channel ) and the inability to provide teletext mode.

Intel's i740 was explicitly designed to exploit the new AGP feature set.

Nine games were programmed with the feature but the cartridge was canceled before it was released.

This feature was developed and built with assistance from Trace Research and Development Centre at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Gallaudet University.

This portability feature, however, requires a portable television, which was extremely rare in the early 1980s.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers — including the New York Mirror — and was an immediate success.

A very successful Portuguese feature film was made in the early 20th century that dramatically captured the primitive and dangerous life of these fishermen.

The feature was controlled by the CPU, motherboard BIOS, and operating system.

In 1996, the series was adapted into the animated feature film Beavis and Butt-head Do America.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, most BBSes used ANSI to make elaborate welcome screens, and colorized menus, and thus, ANSI support was a sought-after feature in terminal client programs.

The Judia (" Jewess ", for the ancestry of its owner Fernão de Loronha ) was the Portuguese ship that discovered the feature by running aground on it in 1506.

A green flash was added to the socks, which from 1938 became a green turnover ( although on blue socks thus eliminating red from the kit ), and that has remained a feature of the strip ever since.