Feature - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

  • Feature (software design) is an intentional distinguishing characteristic of a software item (in performance, portability, or - especially - functionality)
  • Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob
  • Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch
  • Features (pattern recognition), in statistics: individual measurable properties of the phenomena being observed
  • Feature data, in geographic information systems, comprise information about an entity with a geographic location

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