(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.
Feminization
Definition:
(n.) The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
Example Sentences:
(1) Feminism sometimes clings too hard to a sense of identity that always equates "female" with "underdog".
(2) The clinical features of 3 Ethiopian patients presenting with the complete syndrome of testicular feminization are described.
(3) • This is an edited extract from Feminism & Men by Nikki van der Gaag , published by Zed Books.
(4) Understanding how steroids work has led to improved comprehension of such derangements of hormonal regulation as testicular feminization.
(5) Subjects in group I were satisfied with cross-dressing and did not desire additional feminization.
(6) Sylvia Walby, in her new book, The Future of Feminism , adjudicates on this magisterially.
(7) She taught me that feminism is not a choice, but a responsibility for women like me – those of us who are born into privilege in a country where privilege is determined by the accident of your birth.
(8) Without feminism I don't think I would have started blogging because I would have thought who the fuck am I, why would anyone be interested?
(9) Interestingly, in addition to feminizing XO animals, xol-1 mutations further masculinize XX animals already partially masculinized.
(10) On the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, they scored high on the depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, and paranoia scales, and they scored low on the masculinity-feminity scale.
(11) Now let's talk a little about feminism's fourth wave, which is currently in its early stages.
(12) After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way.
(13) Their relationship was an important part of the context in which feminism, social reform and nursing came together at the turn of the century.
(14) Three families with androgen resistance syndromes--two with testicular feminization and one with Reifenstein syndrome--have been studied for linkage analysis.
(15) Furthermore, feminism requires new forms of social interaction that embody the esthetical space women need to experience life as full-fledged citizens.
(16) There is a long and problematic history of colonial feminism and the "good intentions" of outsiders using racialised notions to "save women over there".
(17) I was asked by Granta magazine in 2010 to contribute an essay about feminism, which they said they wanted to be quite personal; and having thought at first that that wasn't the proper way to discuss feminism, I realised very quickly that for me now, perhaps it was the only way.
(18) Testicular feminization (Tfm) in the mouse is characterized by androgen insensitivity of the target cells.
(19) The sex industry held itself up as the promised land of feminism.
(20) But because of feminism, I feel I have a duty to take it to court and to see it through."