FEATURE

Feature

Feature in archaeology and especially excavation has several different but allied meanings. A feature is a collection of one or more contexts representing some human non-portable activity that generally has a vertical characteristic to it in relation to site stratigraphy. Examples of features are pits, walls, and ditches. General horizontal elements in the stratigraphic sequence, such as layers, dumps, or surfaces are not referred to as features. Examples of surfaces include yards, roads, and floors.

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feature

Noun

  1. One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.
  2. An important or main item.
  3. A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
  4. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
  5. A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
  6. 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; as, one of the features of the landscape.
  7. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
  8. Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

Verb

  1. To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
  2. To star, to contain.
  3. to appear; to make an appearance.


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