main characteristic

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meanings of mainand characteristic

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk /ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/ us /ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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Examples of main characteristic

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The maincharacteristic of this style was an almost obsessive concern for the minutiae of all areas of government.
Spatial distinction, in effect, constitutes the maincharacteristic of the ' holy'.
The maincharacteristic of memory-based models is storing the instances and delaying processing to the prediction phase.
It is more effective at function words like indeed than at words whose maincharacteristic is (for example) markedness, like lousy.
On the other maincharacteristic of the enforcement mechanism - criminal as opposed to civil or administrative law - there is no evidence of any disagreement.
A maincharacteristic of this type of dwelling is that it has only one open side facing the exterior.
In the case of the posture that has a certain maincharacteristic, the primary task in its stabilization is to preserve it.
For all the postures having the same maincharacteristic they are said to belong to the same type.
The maincharacteristic of these speakers, when compared to the others, is that in both corpora they have more anterior locations for the stops.
The maincharacteristic of a human expert is his ability to perform tasks at an exceptional level of performance, in a specialized domain.
Moreover, the maincharacteristic of demarcations by such organisations is their overstatement of their case.
The maincharacteristic of the proposed approach is the improved robustness of the localization procedure with respect to uncertainties on the environment map.
Reduced to very little, the plot's maincharacteristic lies in its repetitiveness.
The maincharacteristic of a reified temporal logic is that propositions are turned into terms that can be named, and to which predicates can be applied.
The hominids split from the line leading to modern chimpanzees and bonobos around six million years ago, and the maincharacteristic distinguishing them was a bipedal posture.
The maincharacteristic of logarithmic assemblies is that there exist constants > 0 and 0 > 0 such that mi i0 /(i - 1)!
The maincharacteristic of and driving force behind these unscrupulous minority groups is the imposing of their ideas and power through violence and fear.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Today we are in the midst of the post-industrial revolution, of which the maincharacteristic is probably the deconstruction of the past.
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The maincharacteristic of naval action is the extreme slowness, if also the ultimate certainty, with which it operates.
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Its maincharacteristic is its sustained and uninterrupted broadcasting of major sporting events.
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