"featural" meaning in All languages combined

See featural on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Etymology: feature + -al Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|feature|al}} feature + -al Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} featural (not comparable)
  1. Of or pertaining to features. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-featural-en-adj-tokahWdt
  2. (linguistics) A writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-featural-en-adj-E12~g9U6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 25 75 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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