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PRONUNCIATION OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Acquired characteristic is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acquired characteristic

An acquired characteristic is a non-heritable change in a function or structure of a living biotic material caused after birth by disease, injury, accident, deliberate modification, repeated use, disuse, or misuse, or other environmental influences. Acquired traits, which is synonymous with acquired characteristics, are not passed on to offspring through reproduction alone. The changes that constitute acquired characteristics can have many manifestationsnae and degrees of visibility but they all have one thing in common: they change a facet of a living organisms' function or structure after the organism has left the womb. ▪ The children of former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger may have highly developed or otherwise above average musculature. ▪ "Lucky", an adult, three-legged dog who got her name after surviving being hit by a car when she was a pup, just gave birth to five puppies. None had limps, malformed/abnormal legs, or were missing a leg. ▪ Bonsai are normal plants that have been grown to remain small through cultivation techniques. Acquired characteristics can be minor and temporary like bruises, blisters, shaving body hair, and body building.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC

acquiesce
acquiescence
acquiescent
acquiescently
acquight
acquirability
acquirable
acquire
acquired
acquired behaviour
acquired drive
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
acquired immunity
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
acquired taste
acquiree
acquirement
acquirer
acquis communautaire
acquisition

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC

anachronistic
artistic
autistic
ballistic
characteristic
deterministic
domestic
futuristic
holistic
linguistic
logistic
minimalistic
optimistic
probabilistic
realistic
sadistic
simplistic
statistic
stylistic
synergistic
unrealistic

Synonyms and antonyms of acquired characteristic in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «acquired characteristic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC

Find out the translation of acquired characteristic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of acquired characteristic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «acquired characteristic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

收购特点
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

característica adquirida
570 millions of speakers

English

acquired characteristic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधिग्रहीत विशेषता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السمة المكتسبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

приобрела характерный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

característica adquirida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্জিত বৈশিষ্ট্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

caractéristique acquis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ciri yang diperolehi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erworbene Eigenschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

獲得した特性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인수 특성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angsal karakteristik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đặc mua
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாங்கிய பண்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अधिग्रहित वैशिष्ट्यपूर्ण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Edinilen karakteristik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

caratteristica acquisita
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nabyte charakterystyczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

придбала характерний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

caracteristică dobândită
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απέκτησε χαρακτηριστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkry eienskap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förvärvade karakteristiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ervervet karakteristisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acquired characteristic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC»

The term «acquired characteristic» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.809 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «acquired characteristic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «acquired characteristic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about acquired characteristic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC»

Discover the use of acquired characteristic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acquired characteristic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Evolution - A Dual Process
The question then arises: Why has natural selection not reduced this time delay to zero? There are of course those that will say that this time delay is not a genetically acquired characteristic. But if it was not a genetically acquired characteristic, ...
Andreas Polydorou, 2007
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The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
But in our case'such a connection concerning the newly acquired characteristic is missing. In this respect, germ plasm and body, as far as this newly acquired characteristic is concerned, have nothing to do with each other and are entirely ...
Paul Kammerer
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Human Variation: From the Laboratory to the Field
The living environment in turn affects the acquired characteristic phenotype to eventually develop physiological and/or morphological polytypism. Our interest focusses on the ability and necessity of the acquired characteristic phenotype to ...
C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Akira Yasukouchi, Stanley Ulijaszek, 2009
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Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory
The second perfective situation may be characterized by a newly produced goal ( as in [3]), by a newly acquired characteristic of the goal (as in [4]), by a newly acquired characteristic of the agent (with intransitive verbs and, for example, ...
Ellen Contini-Morava, Barbara S. Goldberg, 1995
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Logic
Now by means of the concrete implication that ' every examined case of an acquired characteristic being nontransmitted would imply, with a certain degree of probability, that no acquired characteristic is transmissible,' conjoined with the  ...
W.E. Johnson, 2014
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Logic Part Ii
Now by means of the concrete implication that ' every examined case of an acquired characteristic being non- transmitted would imply, with a certain degree of probability, that no acquired characteristic is transmissible,' conjoined with the  ...
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Barron's LSAT
That the fruit fly's offspring exhibit the same vulnerability supports the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited. In (A), the webbed feet are not an acquired characteristic but a result of mutation and were perpetuated by inbreeding.
Jerry Bobrow, 2009
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Physics With Illustrative Examples From Medicine and ...
... and then transmitted this acquired characteristic (resistance) to subsequent generations. These two possibilities represent, in the field of bacterial genetics, the age-old problem as to whether evolutionary development is the result of mutation ...
George B. Benedek, Felix M.H. Villars, 2000
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Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays in Honor of ...
Understood as an acquired characteristic, modularity results from the gradual specialization of the data structures that are necessary and sufficient to trigger a given computation. For example, in word reading, extended practice with a specific ...
Lauren B. Resnick, 1989
10
What Is Happening?: A Mystical Dialogue
process in your acquired, characteristic way. (This Self is what is what is really meant by 'the Soul'.)” Me: “You say 'initially', what do you imply by that? And what is this 'acquired, characteristic way?'” Mediator: “Patience. There is certainly more  ...
N. E. Boddy, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term acquired characteristic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Quality, quantity, and freshness in the reproductive game
In particular, the idea has been floated that if sperm are the agents responsible for the transmission of an acquired characteristic, then they must ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
2
Tradition and change
If it is claimed that the traditional practice excludes a category of people because of an acquired characteristic that is not part of their core ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
3
The Bazalgettes And The Slowness Of Economic And Social Mobility
But wealth inheritance is obviously Lamarckian, in that it's the inheritance of an acquired characteristic. And so to could we talk about cultural ... «Forbes, Feb 15»
4
Ghosts of the Past: Previous Sexual Partners May Determine the …
The study, "Revisiting telegony: Offspring inherit an acquired characteristic of their mother's previous mate", which has been published in ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Oct 14»
5
Replace the Modern Synthesis (Neo-Darwinism): An Interview With …
The experimental evidence now exists for various forms and various mechanisms by which an acquired characteristic can be transmitted. «Huffington Post, May 14»
6
Men Who Love Women Who Love Women
For those who suffer from this affliction the question might then be asked, is a predilection a question of biology or an acquired characteristic, ... «Huffington Post, Nov 13»
7
Russia, America, Germany, and Political Homophobia
The law is based on the premises widely held by homophobes that a) homosexuality is an acquired characteristic, "chosen" by homosexuals, ... «Truth-Out, Aug 13»
8
Master Storytellers of India
As a matter of fact, this study focuses entirely on how the Indian short story in English has acquired characteristic flavour of its own through ... «Free Press Journal, Jul 13»
9
Parents have gastric bypass; children's DNA may receive the benefits
Still, the paper as a whole makes a compelling case that imprinting could have a significant role in making an acquired characteristic (obesity) a ... «Ars Technica, May 13»
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Horror director George A Romero reveals why he made his latest …
The zombies in the Dawn of the Dead remake of 2004 were no less active - an acquired characteristic Romero, who did not direct the film, has ... «BBC News, Mar 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Acquired characteristic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/acquired-characteristic>. May 2024 ».
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