property
predominant feature that characterizes a being, a thing, a phenomenon, etc. and which differentiates one being from another, one thing from another
Magnum cartridge
firearms cartridge with a larger case size than, or derived from, a similar cartridge of the same bullet caliber and case shoulder shape
worsening
aggravation of a symptom
vespertine
term indicating occurrence in the evening
authority
a text's reliability as a witness to the author's intentions at a given point in time
consistency
property of a database system ensuring that a transaction can only bring the database from one valid state to another, maintaining database invariants (constraints, cascades, triggers etc.)
discontinuity
philosophical concept
measure
property of object in data warehouse
qualitative property
property that is observed and can generally not be measured with a numerical result; has no numerical characteristics (contrasted to quantitative property)
language correctness
property of a linguistic text based on its compliance with the rules of a certain language variety
continuity
lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time
means
means by which an item performs a function
artificiality
state of being the product of intentional human manufacture, rather than occurring naturally
indicator
observed value of a variable in statistics
quantum supremacy
potential ability of quantum computing devices to solve problems efficiently that classical computers practically cannot solve efficiently
greatness
concept of a state of superiority affecting a person or object in a particular place or area
handmade
property of objects made by hand
anti-racist
person who opposes racism
symmetry
state; balance of object
eye color
polygenic phenotypic character
Markov property
stochastic process satisfying a certain property
flatness
measure of compression of an ellipse or ellipsoid of revolution; property of having one dimension significantly less than the rest
anisotropy
property of being directionally dependent, which implies different properties in different directions, as opposed to isotropy
Archimedean property
the absence of infinitesimals in a mathematical system
interoperability
ability of systems to work with each other
consanguinity
property of being from the same kinship as another person; quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person
wine fault
unpleasant characteristic of a wine often resulting from poor winemaking practices or storage conditions, and leading to wine spoilage
gloss
optical property describing the ability of a surface to reflect light in a specular direction
grammatical category
analytical class within the grammar of a language
talent
aptitude useful for some activity
doneness
extent to which meat or other food is cooked
uniform convergence
mode of convergence of a function sequence
numerical stability
property of a numerical algorithm which describes how errors and approximations in the input data or intermediate values propagate through the algorithm without diverging its results
sea state
general condition of the free surface on a large body of water
light characteristic
description of navigational light
imperfection
departure of a characteristic from its preferred level or state
property
type of class member in object-oriented programming which is accessed like a field but implemented as subroutine(s)
conditional convergence
a property of infinite series
robustness
property of a computer system to cope with faults in input or execution
curable
property of a disease than can be cured
row equivalence
equivalence of matrices under row operations
dominant trait
inheritance pattern of a gene
state
abstract term that denotes the presence of stable values of a set of variables of an object
Liveness
guarantee that a system will eventually satisfy some condition
durability
property of a database system guaranteeing that transactions that have committed will survive permanently in the event of crashes
test validity
extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure
Hamming weight
number of nonzero symbols in a string
Invariant basis number
algebraic property of a ring analogous to the uniqueness of the dimension of a vector space