(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.
Nondescript
Definition:
(a.) Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.
(n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.
Example Sentences:
(1) These lesions are nondescript papules or nodules primarily involving the head and neck areas of young adults.
(2) At the entrance to Kailash Satyarthi’s nondescript office is a small noticeboard, of the old fashioned type, with white plastic letters pressed into a dark felt background.
(3) A nondescript Gerard Deulofeu corner just before the half-hour was transformed by an improvised, volleyed flick from Gareth Barry.
(4) All this human wreckage leads to a nondescript white truck that could not be stopped by the weight of people in front of it or the bullets from the police officers who fired at it.
(5) Many cities have a history of hosting refugees; indeed, the typical image of a refugee dwelling – straight rows of nondescript tents set up on barren, faraway lands – is misleading.
(6) Silent, head bowed, shoulders hunched in an ill-fitting suit, Oscar Pistorius would have attracted little attention from a casual observer unaware of his central role in the drama under way on Monday, in a nondescript ground floor courtroom in Pretoria.
(7) At a nondescript factory nestled in an industrial Brooklyn waterfront, dozens of tech reporters, industry insiders and 3D printing enthusiasts last Friday filed in to attend the grand opening of the manufacturing headquarters of the best-known name in 3D printing .
(8) Wings for the A400M – made from lightweight composites rather than aluminium to dramatically reduce weight and improve speed and manoeuvrability – are taking shape inside a nondescript hanger in Filton called 07N.
(9) Mukesh, about 30, was quiet, nondescript, a follower, according to neighbours.
(10) Most lesions were nondescript papules and located on the upper part of the body, seven cases of neurothekeoma on the head.
(11) Transcriptional mapping of this region of the genome detected a late mRNA which was initiated at 450 base pairs to the right of the HindIII D-A junction, was transcribed in the leftward direction, and was terminated in the nondescript manner typical of vaccinia virus late mRNAs.
(12) Sitting in the basement of a nondescript apartment block, I entered the sauna complex and was immediately transported back in time.
(13) The peculiar chromatin pattern, as shown by immunohistochemical methods, occurs in striated muscle cells, histiocytes, Schwann cells, nondescript mesenchymal cells of the heart, and, rarely, cells outside of the heart.
(14) This was Maryino , a far-flung district in south-east Moscow Drug addicts tend to gather near the nondescript pharmacy here because it sells tropicamide eye drops , which are typically used to dilate the pupil, without a prescription.
(15) Most days at midday, Uber’s nondescript office in London’s King’s Cross opens its doors and dozens of men clutching sheaves of driving licences and insurance documents pour in.
(16) He has already indicated that we would rather live with Trierweiler in their modest nondescript flat in Paris's 15th arrondissement with its Ikea furniture than the 370-room Elysée Palace with its private cinema and 900 staff, including white-gloved factotums who set the pendulums on its scores of gold clocks.
(17) The eastern edge of the City is somewhat nondescript despite its Roman and medieval roots.
(18) He's wearing mid-blue "dad" jeans and a nondescript T-shirt which, along with his ever-present baseball cap and gap-toothed grin, constitute the signature Mac DeMarco look.
(19) The eruption may assume various clinical forms and may be characterized by a nondescript erythematous and eczematous appearance or may consist of an exaggeration, in the areas covered by the stretch garment, of already existing dermatosis such as lichen planus, psoriasis, acne vulgaris, discoid lupus erythematosus or atopic dermatitis.
(20) After subculture, the adherent periosteal-derived cells showed a nondescript, fibroblast-like morphology in cell culture.