The defining characteristic of this family is the inflorescence: a simple or compound umbel.

Biopolymers often have a well-defined structure, though this is not a defining characteristic ( example: ligno-cellulose ):

This model of monotheism became the defining characteristic of post-Exilic Judaism, and became the basis for Christianity and Islam.

The defining characteristic of bistability is simply that two stable states ( minima ) are separated by a peak ( maximum ).

Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

The ability of the atmosphere to capture and recycle energy emitted by the Earth surface is the defining characteristic of the greenhouse effect.

Though of course hotels have always been built in popular destinations, the defining characteristic of a resort hotel is that it exists purely to serve another attraction, the two having the same owners.

Sexual desire was not the defining characteristic of a lesbian-feminist, but rather her focus on politics.

Myelin is considered a defining characteristic of the ( gnathostome ) vertebrates, but myelin-like sheaths have also arisen by parallel evolution in some invertebrates, although they are quite different from vertebrate myelin at the molecular level.

The term reliability, availability and serviceability ( RAS ) is a defining characteristic of mainframe computers.

This has often been cited as the defining characteristic of the New Order sound.

Then the characteristic ( or defining ) property of the ordered pair is:

The defining characteristic of observation is that it involves drawing conclusions, as well as building personal views about how to handle similar situations in the future, rather than simply registering that something has happened.

There is considerable agreement about defining the characteristic features of a profession.

In its common meaning, the term is used to identify a characteristic, a feature, a measurable factor that can help in defining a particular system.

The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents occur between metrical beats.

The Meissner effect is a defining characteristic of superconductivity.

* abolition of private property considered as a primary goal of socialism, if not its defining characteristic, thus near total collectivization and nationalization of the means of production ;

In the case of hyponymy, psychological experiments revealed that individuals can access properties of nouns more quickly depending on when a characteristic becomes a defining property.

The defining characteristic of a vertebrate is the vertebral column, in which the notochord ( a stiff rod of uniform composition ) found in all chordates has been replaced by a segmented series of stiffer elements ( vertebrae ) separated by mobile joints ( intervertebral discs, derived embryonically and evolutionarily from the notochord ).

Telfer found five tall, developmentally disabled XYY boys and men in hospitals and penal institutions in Pennsylvania, and since four of the five had at least moderate facial acne, reached the erroneous conclusion that acne was a defining characteristic of XYY males.

The term is widely needed to support the more esoteric requirements of a number of disciplines including in philosophy when a concept is not available ; in biology when a genus is not available ; in law when a special and unique interpretation of a case or authority will be needed on-the-fly ; in town-planning where there is no existing use-case ; in intellectual property rights where there is no defining characteristic ; and in politics and societal norms where there is no real authority perceived.

Another defining characteristic for an indigenous group is that it has preserved traditional ways of living, such as present or historical reliance upon subsistence-based production ( based on pastoral, horticultural and / or hunting and gathering techniques ), and a predominantly non-urbanized society.

But the defining characteristic of the Nizari Ismaili state was that it was scattered geographically throughout Persia and Syria.

The battle was a defining moment for the young Athenian democracy, showing what might be achieved through unity and self-belief ; indeed, the battle effectively marks the start of a " golden age " for Athens.

An assault rifle is usually slightly smaller than a battle rifle such as the Karabiner 98k, but the chief differences defining an assault rifle are select-fire capability and the use of a rifle round of lesser power, known as an intermediate cartridge.

The climax often contains much of the action in a story, for example, a defining battle.

It was at this battle, regardless of exactly when and where this occurred, that a defining moment of Epaminondas's early life would occur.

Maximilian von Wimpffen, the Army's Chief of Staff, was influential in defining the Austrian battle plan.

Group f / 64 was more than a club of artists ; they described themselves as engaged in a battle against a " tide of oppressive pictorialism " and purposely called their defining proclamation a manifesto, with all the political overtones that the name implies.

Cornell's battle with addiction to prescription drugs and alcoholism was a defining factor in the writing and recording process.

Reinfeldt later stated that although the effects of that deep ideological division and battle in the party lingered on within the Moderate Youth League, he also felt that it was a defining moment in his life.

Confederate hold in the area was soon broken, however, after the Battle of Glorieta Pass, the defining battle of the New Mexico Campaign.

: The defining moment in the code battle came with the 1886 Queensland side, who defeated NSW for the first time in Sydney.

The defining feature of the main battle tank type is neither its weight, mobility, nor firepower, but instead the idea that only one type of tracked armoured vehicle is required to carry out the roles of breakthrough, exploitation and infantry support.

The battle was the defining engagement of a short war between the United States and the Sioux over disputes concerning violations of the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

As the Rangers battle Elgar, the Quantrons and the Piranhatrons, Bulk & Skull have arguably their most defining moment.

His battle to protect hockey from the influence of professionalism caused him to be called the “ father of Amateur Hockey in Ontario .” During his term as president, the OHA was able to set rules defining professionalism in hockey.

Many philosophers have argued that consciousness is a unitary concept that is understood intuitively by the majority of people in spite of the difficulty in defining it.

Yes also produced concept albums during the ' 70s, most notably Tales from Topographic Oceans, which would become a defining album of prog rock, but its critical backlash would lead to the genre's decline in popularity and the rise of punk rock.

Later on, Stefan Banach amplified the concept, defining Banach spaces.

Although he avoided defining the term directly, Derrida sought to apply Martin Heidegger's concept of Destruktion or Abbau, to textual reading.

Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web.

Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur (" The Death of Arthur "), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.

" Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern viewpoint: " The border between music and noise is always culturally defined — which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place ; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.

We are now controlled not by binding extra-linguistic value paradigms defining notions of collective identity and ultimate purpose, but rather by our automatic responses to different species of " language games " ( a concept Lyotard imports from JL Austin's theory of Speech Acts ).

The concept of a " national epic ", an extensively mythologized legendary work of poetry of defining importance to a certain nation, is another product of Romantic nationalism.

The publication of the 1996 anthology Rethinking linguistic relativity edited by sociolinguist John J. Gumperz and psycholinguist Stephen C. Levinson marked the entrance to a new period of linguistic relativity studies and a new way of defining the concept that focused on cognitive as well as social aspects of linguistic relativity.

Transfinite recursion is a method of constructing or defining something and is closely related to the concept of transfinite induction.

Some scholars make sharp distinctions between moral or ethical usage of the word Dao that is prominent in Confucianism and religious Daoism and the more metaphysical usage of the term used in philosophical Daoism and most forms of Mahayana Buddhism ; others maintain that these are not separate usages or meanings, seeing them as mutually inclusive and compatible approaches to defining the concept.

That part of his personality that harbours these hostile antisocial feelings must be excluded from membership, and has no claim for a hearing when it comes to defining our concept of social utility .”

The terms " logic " or " logical " are sometimes used as if they were identical with the term " reason " or with the concept of being " rational ", or sometimes logic is seen as the most pure or the defining form of reason.

A Magus is further limited in terms of the spell's application: Ars Magica features a set of magical ' laws ', similar in concept to those of physics, defining the upper limits of any magical spell ( Creo Corpus, for example, cannot create ' true ' life, nor can it restore the dead ; magic, in general, cannot affect the flow of time, nor can it affect the ' lunar sphere or anything above it ' ( i. e. the realms of the Divine, according to medieval thought )).

In defining the concept, Hanifan contrasts social capital with material goods by defining it as:

The lack of progress made in defining creoles in terms of their morphology and syntax has led scholars such as Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko Mufwene and Henri Wittmann to question the value of creole as a typological class ; they argue that creoles are structurally no different from any other language, and that creole is a sociohistoric concept — not a linguistic one — encompassing displaced population and slavery.

Several researchers, after defining their concept of hope, have devised ways of how to measure the actual psychological construct.

He created the concept of ' serial vision ', defining the urban landscape as a series of related spaces.

The program also introduces a practical implementation of the register machine concept, defining and developing an assembler for such a construct, which is used as a virtual machine for the implementation of interpreters and compilers in the book, and as a testbed for illustrating the implementation and effect of modifications to the evaluation mechanism.

Experiences from World War I battlefields emblazoned the concept of the trench warfare as an elongate depression defining an important boundary, so it was no surprise that the term “ trench ” was used to describe natural features in the early 1920s.

The future and the concept of eternity have been major subjects of philosophy, religion, and science and defining them non-controversially has consistently eluded the greatest of minds.