Later a mixer was built for him by Alex Rosner which let him listen to any channel in the headphones independently of what was playing on the speakers ; this became the defining feature of DJ mixers.

Factories processed, preserved, canned, and packaged a wide variety of foods, and processed cereals quickly became a defining feature of the American breakfast.

This first digital delivery and exhibition of a full-length feature film to paying audiences is widely considered to be the defining moment for digital cinema's commercial viability.

The defining feature of consequentialist moral theories is the weight given to the consequences in evaluating the rightness and wrongness of actions.

This process of moulting is the defining feature of the clade Ecdysozoa, comprising the arthropods, nematodes, velvet worms, horsehair worms, rotifers, tardigrades, and Cephalorhyncha.

As a defining feature, ' Kleinian psychoanalysts regard the unconscious as made up of phantasies of relations with objects.

In this form, its defining feature is a constant stress on the tenth syllable, so that the number of syllables in the verse may vary, equaling eleven in the usual case where the final word is stressed on the penultimate syllable.

On the north, the main defining feature is the fault-based " Escarpment ", a long ridge that extends from Flagstaff in the west, through Windsor in the centre, to Campbells and the start of the Barbecue Bottom Road ( B10 ).

Paul Marino called the addition of this feature " a defining moment for achinima ".

Despite the complexities, contemporary political science has progressed by adopting a variety of methods and theoretical approaches to understanding politics and methodological pluralism is a defining feature of contemporary political science.

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 feature that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Albert Moran, is " that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative.

UK soap operas also frequently foreground their geographic location as a key defining feature of the show while depicting and capitalising on the exotic appeal of the stereotypes connected to the location.

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.

The defining feature of special relativity is the replacement of the Galilean transformations of classical mechanics by the Lorentz transformations.

Technically, general relativity is a theory of gravitation whose defining feature is its use of the Einstein field equations.

A defining feature of transcription factors is that they contain one or more DNA-binding domains ( DBDs ), which attach to specific sequences of DNA adjacent to the genes that they regulate.

" State " or " worker cooperative " ownership is in fundamental opposition to " private " ownership of the means of production, which is the defining feature of capitalism.

It is not a true form of agate, as it lacks agate's defining feature of concentric banding.

A defining feature of this era includes an evolution of research methods, with the establishment of placebo-controlled, double blind studies, and the development of methods for analyzing blood levels with respect to clinical outcome and increased sophistication in clinical trials.

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 Scandinavian Mountains are the most defining feature of the country.

Kamakura's defining feature is Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, a Shinto shrine located in the center of the city.

The anatomy of the reproductive system is an important defining feature in distinguishing the different groups of tardigrades.

While overtone techniques are not a defining feature of yoik, individuals sometimes utilize overtones in the production of yoik.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.

`` A serious problem accompanying the technical-ladder approach is the difficulty of clearly defining responsibilities and standards of performance for each level.

Here the problem is essentially one of defining the word `` filling ''.

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.

The President is also provided a variety of powers, like defining the policy of the country.

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.

Its triple point temperature of 83. 8058 K is a defining fixed point in the International Temperature Scale of 1990.

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

The Spectrogram produced by such an instrument is a graphical display of the time varying pressure level and frequency profiles which give a specific acoustic signal its defining character.

An approach to defining what is meant by area is through axioms.

Some researchers state that the evidence-based approach to defining CAM is problematic because some CAM is tested, and research suggests that many mainstream medical techniques lack solid evidence.

* Given an R-module M, the endomorphism ring of M, denoted End < sub > R </ sub >( M ) is an R-algebra by defining ( r · φ )( x ) = r · φ ( x ).

As taught in school books, analytic geometry can be explained more simply: it is concerned with defining and representing geometrical shapes in a numerical way and extracting numerical information from shapes ' numerical definitions and representations.

Thus, ayahuasqueros and most others working with the brew maintain that the B. caapi vine is the defining ingredient, and that this beverage is not ayahuasca unless B. caapi is in the brew.

However, the defining recommendation indicates a change to a system similar to ISO 8601 and astronomical year numbering is likely in the future.

If this limit fails to exist then there is no oblique asymptote in that direction, even should the limit defining m exist.

Every Boolean algebra ( A, ∧, ∨) gives rise to a ring ( A, +, ·) by defining a + b := ( a ∧ ¬ b ) ∨ ( b ∧ ¬ a ) = ( a ∨ b ) ∧ ¬( a ∧ b ) ( this operation is called symmetric difference in the case of sets and XOR in the case of logic ) and a · b := a ∧ b. The zero element of this ring coincides with the 0 of the Boolean algebra ; the multiplicative identity element of the ring is the 1 of the Boolean algebra.

Conversely, if a Boolean ring A is given, we can turn it into a Boolean algebra by defining x ∨ y := x + y + ( x · y ) and x ∧ y := x · y.

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