Sentence examples for superficial feature from inspiring English sources

An important superficial feature of a technology is the name given to it.

The term VLIW is a pithy summary of a superficial feature of the architectural style.

Material criteria, and notably what Gentner refers to as "superficial feature matches," can be extremely important in some types of analogical reasoning.

By contrast, while race has also been viewed as a natural category, there is another racial discourse which understands it as a superficial feature under which human beings are all the same.

In addition, he found that the cell size was only a superficial feature of cell differentiation (Tauc, 1966; Ingoglia and Sturman, 1980; Ambron and Kremzner, 1982; Abel and Kandel, 1998).

Recognition of this superficial item feature was not, however, associated with problem solving success or failure; experts who recognized this superficial sort rule were good problem solvers, whereas novices who recognized this superficial feature as salient were typically poor problem solvers.

They have some superficial features in common.

"They mimic the superficial features," said Behn.  "They show up in Baltimore and see a meeting.

They are genetically only skin-deep: races do differ in a small number of genes that influence superficial features like skin color.

It's as though we cannot help thinking that such things reflect deeper similarities even though they are actually the most superficial features to compare.

But now there is research suggesting that, to a striking degree, we tend to pick friends who are genetically similar to us in ways that go beyond superficial features.