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distinguishing characteristic

NOUN
  1. an odd or unusual characteristic

How To Use distinguishing characteristic In A Sentence

  • The most distinguishing characteristics of this soil type are the illuviation of clay in the B horizon, moderate to high concentrations of base cations, and light-colored surface horizons. Soil
  • Attention has also been given to ovarian morphology as a primary distinguishing characteristic.
  • Since Leibniz 'time the term monad has been used by various philosophers to designate indivisible centres of force, but as a general rule these units are not understood to possess the power of representation or perception, which is the distinguishing characteristic of the Leibnizian monad. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • That is its distinguishing characteristic, and something to which we shall return.
  • Judges to put the offender upon his second trial by the visne, which now forms the distinguishing characteristic of the English law, and he was at once considered as condemned. Anne of Geierstein
  • Such a capacity to identify and contrast peoples by distinguishing characteristics is a feature of a sense of national identity.
  • But race is not the distinguishing characteristic of this growing rape epidemic.
  • Other distinguishing characteristics of this group include a double blowhole, a symmetrical skull, right and left halves of the the lower jaw unfused, and a single osseus sternum.
  • The most distinguishing characteristic is a tuft of fibers called byssal threads that grow from the foot and through the hinge of the mussel. IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • Such chests were made in and near Concord, in eastern Massachusetts, and their distinguishing characteristics include fluted pilasters surmounted by bolection moldings, or ‘swelled friezes.’
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