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feature

/ˈfiːtʃə/

noun

Meaning

  • One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

  • An important or main item.

  • A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

  • Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

  • A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

  • The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

    "one of the features of the landscape"

  • Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

  • Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

  • (machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.

  • The act of being featured in a piece of music.

  • The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

verb

Meaning

  • To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

  • To star, to contain.

  • To appear, to make an appearance.

  • To have features resembling.