With the phylogenetic classification, the taxon Labyrinthodontia has been discarded as it is a paraphyletic group without unique defining features apart from shared primitive characteristics.

One of the defining characteristics of the order is the presence of phytomelan, a black pigment present in the seed coat, creating a dark crust.

The bus connecting the CPU and memory is one of the defining characteristics of the system, and often referred to simply as the system bus.

Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics.

The Bauhaus promoted pure functionalism, stripped of superfluous ornament, and that has become one of the defining characteristics of modern architecture.

In England, the Dominican nuns blended these elements with the defining characteristics of English Dominican spirituality and created a spirituality and collective personality that set them apart.

These are defining characteristics of mercantilism in economics, which dominated most European thinking about political economy until the rise of classical economics.

Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.

The four forms commonly distinguished by the inhabitants of South America are recognized as distinct species, though with difficulties in defining their distinctive characteristics.

" Legitimate states that govern effectively and dynamic industrial economies are widely regarded today as the defining characteristics of a modern nation-state.

In 1969 the IUCN ( International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ) declared a national park to be a relatively large area with particular defining characteristics.

This empowerment includes the use of spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues and divine healing – two other defining characteristics of Pentecostalism.

This later developed into one of the defining characteristics of tonality.

* Software design: The process of defining the architecture, components, interfaces, and other characteristics of a system or component.

While there is no authoritative list of the defining characteristics of the screwball comedy genre, films considered to be definitive of the genre usually feature farcical situations, a combination of slapstick with fast-paced repartee and show the struggle between economic classes.

Taxonomy ( from ancient Greek taxis, arrangement, and nomia, method ) is the academic discipline of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups.

Waterspouts and landspouts share many defining characteristics, including relative weakness, short lifespan, and a small, smooth condensation funnel which often does not reach the surface.

There are various formulations of these defining characteristics in existence.

In the study of orchestration – in contradistinction to the practice – the term instrumentation may also refer to consideration of the defining characteristics of individual instruments rather than to the art of combining instruments.

The second element reviews historical forces, myths, and defining characteristics that pertain to the region.

One of the defining characteristics of Gothic architecture is the pointed or ogival arch.

Along with peacekeeping, medicare was found, based on a CBC poll, to be among the foremost defining characteristics of Canada.

It is one of the defining characteristics of Trotskyism.

Critics have often used the opposition between Rome and Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra to set forth defining characteristics of the various characters.

This is in contrast to the more recent definition defining freestyle rap as " improvisational rap like a jazz solo ".

Key regulations defining Irish whiskey and its production are established by the Irish Whiskey Act of 1980, and are relatively simple ( for example, in contrast with those for Scotch and Bourbon whiskey ).

In particular, some Trotskyist schools call those countries degenerated workers ' states to contrast them with proper socialism ( i. e. workers ' states ); other Trotskyist schools call them state capitalist, to emphasise the lack of true socialism and presence of defining capitalist characteristics ( wage labor, commodity production, bureaucratic control over workers ).

The light models the volumetric geometry of her form, defining the conic nature of a small torso bound rigidly into a corset and stiffened bodice, and the panniered skirt extending around her like an oval candy-box, casting its own deep shadow which, by its sharp contrast with the bright brocade, both emphasises and locates the small figure as the main point of attention.

He was famous for the attention he gave to defining the real needs of his clients, regardless of the size of the project, in contrast to other architects eager to impose their artistic vision on a client.

Attitudes, orientations, or behaviors which take the interests, intentions, or needs of other people into account ( in contrast to anti-social behaviour ) has played some role in defining the idea or the principle.

Its defining method can briefly be described as " going backwards from the theorems to the axioms ", in contrast to the ordinary mathematical practice of deriving theorems from axioms.

By contrast, agreements defining limits on acceptable conduct while already engaged in war are considered " rules of war " and are referred to as the jus in bello.

In his paper " Changes in dictionary subject matter " from 2003, Sandro Nielsen suggested a lexicographic approach to defining a dictionary in contrast to the traditional linguistic approach.

There is no official, standardized way to measure contrast ratio for a system or its parts, nor is there a standard for defining " Contrast Ratio " that is accepted by any standards organization so ratings provided by different manufacturers of display devices are not necessarily comparable to each other due to differences in method of measurement, operation, and unstated variables.

H. Freyer, as Philosopher and Sociologist, and the first Bearer of the German professorship for Sociology in Leipzig, keeps the mind that the notion of “ Ideal Type ” is “ a logical peculiarity of historical and cultural cognition ” and “ oversees the contrast of personal and general methods of thinking, on one hand, by defining the logical character in individual, and on the other, by progressing on the way to generalization only till showing the typicalness and not the pure general rule ”.

Another defining feature of caste Hindu society, which is often used to contrast them with Muslim and other social groupings, is lineage / clan ( or gotra ) and village exogamy.

In contrast, a real firm has very few ( though much more complex ) contracts, such as defining a manager's power of direction over employees, in exchange for which the employee is paid.

It is humility that cultivates not only the Holy Wisdom, but humility ( in contrast to knowledge ) is the defining quality that grants people salvation and entrance into Heaven.

Prolific F & SF author Piers Anthony took the concept one step further in the late seventies and eighties geographically defining a Mundania, within which magic was virtually unknown in his Xanth series ( 1977 ) and employed the concept further in exploring and exploiting the contrast between two duality of reality universes in his 1980 Apprentice Adept book series — where much of the plot is dependent upon tension between a magic world and a machine world ( The Mundane ) that can hardly be more different.

Actantal relationships are therefore incredibly useful in generating problems within a narrative that have to be overcome, providing contrast, or in defining an antagonistic force within the narrative.

A unique and defining characteristic about a diskmag in contrast to a typical ASCII " zine " or " t-file " ( or even " g-file ") is that a diskmag usually comes housed as an executable program file that will only run on a specific hardware platform.