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INHERENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the nature of something though not readily apparent
Example:
an underlying meaning
Synonyms:
implicit in; inherent; underlying
Classified under:
Similar:
implicit; inexplicit (implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something)
Derivation:
inhere (be inherent in something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
Example:
a constitutional inability to tell the truth
Synonyms:
built-in; constitutional; inbuilt; inherent; integral
Classified under:
Similar:
intrinsic; intrinsical (belonging to a thing by its very nature)
Derivation:
inhere (be inherent in something)
inherence (the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic)
Context examples:
A biologically inherent cyclic variation or recurrence of an event or state, such as the sleep cycle, circadian rhythms, or periodic diseases.
(Biological Rhythm, NCI Thesaurus)
The inherent characteristic of a molecule or substance to be immiscible in water.
(Hydrophobicity, NCI Thesaurus)
The prospect of storing data in the same physical unit can lead to devices — such as memsistors, memcapacitors and meminductors — with inherent memory and better performance due to the time and energy saved by avoiding the transfer of data.
(Transistor that mimics neurons developed, SciDev.Net)
Issue associated with the incompatibility of the measurement systems between and/or within device systems that are inherent to the individual device thereby leading to miscalculated or mismatched measurements from those devices, e.g., international metric system versus U.S. measurement system.
(Measurement System Incompatibility Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)
An extension to UML that provides constraint and object query expressions on an object-oriented model that cannot otherwise be expressed by diagrammatic notation, providing expressions that have neither the ambiguities of natural language nor the inherent difficulty of using complex mathematics.
(Object Constraint Language, NCI Thesaurus)
Instead of superconducting loops, the quantum information in the quantum computer Lepage and his colleagues are devising use the ‘spin’ of an electron – its inherent angular momentum, which can be up or down – to store quantum information.
(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)
