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distinct | American Dictionary

distinct
adjective
us/dɪˈstɪŋkt/

distinctadjective (DIFFERENT)

clearly separate and different:
The two languages are quite distinct from each other.
The dogs are of distinct breeds.

distinctadjective (NOTICEABLE)

not to be ignored; real and present:
There’s a distinct possibility of rain today.
There were distinct advantages to the first job offer.

Examples of distinct

distinct
Our method incorporates sequential statistical tests, with each step focusing on a distinct property of conserved sequence templates.
Although endotoxin administration caused a significant induction of both of these transcription factors in adherent vascular neutrophils, the kinetics of their responses was distinct.
Many genes perform a multiplicity of subtly distinct functions, and selective pressures have resulted in a compromise between optimal sequences for each role.
Thus, similar input leads to distinct output as a result of different responses by target tissues, stressing the importance of competence in this inductive process.
There is no distinct resting stage, which is characteristic of diapause in many insects.
Although the mechanism of this expression heterogeneity is not clear, it is fortuitous in providing different lines that offer distinct targeting profiles.
Classes in our model represent distinct things or events, and each class may have attributes as well as associations to other classes.
In the absence of pressure from women members, the party could safely ignore women as a distinct group.
In order to establish a personal relationship therefore necessarily involves two distinct persons.
We are distinct individuals, each living his own life, each responsible for what he does.
In fact there were two quite distinct areas of conflict.
Lovers necessarily remain distinct individuals who in loving each other should acknowledge and respect each other's separate identity.
Researchers suspect that there are even more distinct subsets of autism patients.
The different cell lines were from distinct donors and karyotypically normal.
The ideological relation to the mode of production and the mode of production itself are analytically distinct.
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