Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PECULIARITY

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Definitions of PECULIARITY

1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
3. Exclusive possession or right.

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Examples of Using PECULIARITY in a Sentence

• A qubit is a two-state (or two-level) quantum-mechanical system, and is one of the simplest quantum systems displaying the peculiarity of quantum mechanics.
• This peculiarity allows them to walk on steep hillsides, although only in one direction; when lured or chased into the plain, they are trapped in an endless circular path.
• Whatever the validity of Nohl's edition, an editorial peculiarity contained in it involves whether the second right-hand note in bar 7, that is, the first note of the three-note upbeat figure that characterizes the main melody, is an E4 or a D4.
• Gaglardi Way in Burnaby, British Columbia, ended suddenly as an overpass of Highway 1 at the south end at just a forest, due to a residential subdivision beyond the point with two cloverleaf ramps that were blocked off, now removed along with the dead end peculiarity in the 2000's.
• One peculiarity was that some Paviors were members of the Goldsmiths Company and there were instances of disputes being referred to the Court of Aldermen.
• Another peculiarity of these mountains is the fertility of their northern side, which is interspersed with neat farm-houses and cultivated enclosures to its summit, while its southern side is mostly a heathy waste.
• Standardization prevented this peculiarity from having any impact on the playback of a spool recorded on a different machine, but audible consequences can result from substantially altering the original length of a recorded wire by excisions or by dividing it up onto multiple spools.
• Like later search and rescue efforts, Davies' action sprang from the desire to keep a compatriot from capture or death at the hands of the enemy; unlike most of those future efforts, it was a one-man impromptu action that succeeded because of a peculiarity in construction of his aircraft.
• Its constitutional peculiarity had been abolished on 5 December 1848, when it was converted into the Prussian Province of Posen, by way of which it was transformed into one of Prussia's regional subdivisions, but still no part of the German Confederation.
• The peculiarity of all plains and basins in Arcadia is the coincidence with intensive karstification: Water seeps into the underground, rather than eroding and draining the topography by surface waterways.
• The advertising frames are metallic and the name of the station, inscribed on enamelled plates, is in Helvetica font instead of the usual Parisine typography, a peculiarity that the station only shares with Place d'Italie on line 6 and Porte de Versailles on line 12.
• One can easily recognize these spots on the Moldovan, now deforested, mainly cultivated landscape, all the way to the banks of the river Dniester, across from which the Asian steppe begins, and can observe a repeating peculiarity: From each of the summits the otherwise obscured neighborhood is very well observable, with at least three other such spots in clear view, although possibly at a couple hours' walking distance.
• Dorothy Sayers used this peculiarity of the old Crème de Noyaux in her short story "Bitter Almonds" (collected in In the Teeth of the Evidence, 1939).
• It also had one peculiarity, for, as we learn from "Merrie England in the Olden Time", it was a favourite spot for merryandrews, and other buffooneries in open rivalry, and competition with field-preachers and ranters.
• A peculiarity of disilenes is the trans-bending of the substituents, which is never observed in alkenes.
• One peculiarity of distraint lay in the fact that the distrainor did not get any form of legal possession.
• In bygone days, the local Birkenfeld dialect was marked by the peculiarity of often replacing the sounds /d/ and /t/ – and sometimes /r/ as well – with /l/, a shift known as lambdacism.
• This architectural peculiarity is accounted for by the fact that Thornlea was originally intended to be a prototype for an educational model where external stimuli (such as vegetation, the sky, wildlife) are minimized, while internal stimuli (such as bookshelves, other students in class, computer terminals) are maximized.
• The women imitated the peculiarity of the hero they loved the most: Cúscraid's fans stammered, Conall's crooked their necks, and Cúchulainn's squinted one eye in imitation of his warp spasm.
• Herber was said to throw the ball with all five fingers on the laces, a peculiarity shared by no one else.

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