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A feature is a distinct property or piece, which may refer to:

Media

• Feature film, a film intended for initial distribution in theaters
• A feature story is a piece of journalistic writing that covers a selected issue in-depth
• Radio documentary (feature), a radio program devoted to covering a particular topic in some depth, usually with a mixture of commentary and sound pictures

Linguistics

• Feature (linguistics), a property of a class of linguistic items which describes individual members of that class
• Distinctive feature, the most basic unit of structure that can be analyzed by phonetics and phonology

Other uses

• Feature (archaeology), any dug, built, or dumped evidence of human activity

Etymology

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

See also

• Landmark
• Characteristic