defining
Example Sentences
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This enables the essential information defining an organism’s core features—represented in the nucleotide sequences of DNA—to be passed down to its offspring.
The defining feature of these hot spots is not just warm surface water, but unusually deep layers of heat beneath the surface.
From Science Daily
At first, it looked like the match when Jannik Sinner would stamp his authority on the defining rivalry of men’s tennis.
“We felt like we had every right to do that because the constitution invested the legislature with defining the responsibilities” of the governor, Lewis said.
From Salon
Every transfer window, there is a player whose future becomes the defining saga of the month.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
