Noun
A stroke; a touch.
A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA common trait of the various organizations was a romantic longing for a pristine state of things, a return to older cultural traditions, with a strong emphasis on independent, non-conformist thinking. Source: Internet
According to trait theories, introversion and extroversion are part of a continuous dimension with many people in the middle. Source: Internet
According to this line of thinking, the tendency to fill up all available territory seems to be a universal trait of living things, so the Earth should have already been colonized, or at least visited, but no evidence of this exists. Source: Internet
A key trait of ramjet engines is that combustion is done at subsonic speeds. Source: Internet
Also, microsatellites are used for mapping locations within the genome, specifically in genetic linkage analysis/ marker assisted selection to locate a gene or a mutation responsible for a given trait or disease. Source: Internet
A consensus definition of the concept of epigenetic trait as "stably heritable phenotype resulting from changes in a chromosome without alterations in the DNA sequence" was formulated at a Cold Spring Harbor meeting in 2008. Source: Internet