(a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
(n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
(n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(3) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(4) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(6) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
(7) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(8) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(10) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(11) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(12) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(13) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(14) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(15) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(16) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(17) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(18) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(20) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
Commonplace
Definition:
(a.) Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
(n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
(n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
(v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
(v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
(2) Knowledge of the normal radiographic appearance of ASD occlusion devices and the findings in various complications will be necessary for radiologists as transcatheter ASD closure becomes more commonplace.
(3) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
(4) Emergency medical response to a scene where hazardous materials are potentially involved is becoming more commonplace.
(5) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(6) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
(7) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
(8) Supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias remain relatively commonplace in the ICU.
(9) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
(10) The camera’s capers have almost become so commonplace that some presenters just ignore them.
(11) Hepatic transplantation is now a relatively commonplace procedure, performed at many institutions around the world.
(12) Talk about corruption in Russia is commonplace and in our history there have been attempts to curb it through repression.
(13) But although the technology has become commonplace in Japan, where it was first developed, banks in Britain say it could be years before they appear on UK high streets.
(14) Although advanced gastrointestinal cancer is the most commonplace problem encountered by the medical oncologist, this group of diseases has proved exceedingly resistant to past chemotherapy efforts.
(15) But although he says he is against extrajudicial killing of criminals, the record in his city of Davao suggests such killings have been commonplace there.
(16) If listeners treat sinusoidal signals as speech signals however unlike speech they may be, then perception should exhibit the commonplace sensitivity to the dimensions of the originating vocal tract.
(17) The disease started with a commonplace contusion of the patella and rapidly progressed after arthrotomy.
(18) Automation of the assay is now commonplace, from reagent dispensing to automated reading of finished assay.
(19) Complaints that steel products are being exported below production cost (“dumped”) from China to the US and the EU are commonplace.
(20) Those are commonplace tricks to bring pay far below the minimum wage.