inherent property

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an essential property something has by nature of the kind of entity it is – e.g., a proton will have a positive charge (cf. contingent property)

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.