Meanings of essential property in English

The essential property of logs is that they convert multiplication into addition.

This capability of assuming various forms is the second essential property of all causes.

The third sort is its characteristic and essential property, I mean permanently elastic parts.

He also spoke of myths, whose most essential property, perhaps, is that of being being beautiful.

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Again, the discipline is essentially united to the Church: by which term essentially, they must mean either an essential part, or an essential property.

The ancient atomists distinguished the essential properties of things from their accidental features.

His wit was, in its essential properties, of the same kind with that of Cowley and Donne.

Devoid of its most essential properties, it might be exempt from the attributes and infirmities of the flesh.

Now concerning nature, it is but the essential properties and the necessary relations inherent in the realities of things.

Herein, a series of chalcone derivatives that mimic the essential properties of cationic antimicrobial peptides were designed and synthesized.

As examples of essential properties, Lucretius mentions "the weight of a stone, the heat of fire, the fluidity of water."

Aside from the chemical substances which are always present in living matter, and are essential properties of protoplasm, we find no other compounds.

Mr. Sumner, to all the graces and accomplishments of the gentleman, adds the still more important and essential properties of virtue, integrity, and honor.

"The essential property of representative government," says Professor Dicey, "is to produce coincidence between the wishes of the Sovereign and the wishes of the subject....