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# featureName

A feature name that the CoreML model defines.

```
var featureName: String? { get }
```

## Discussion

This value is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/ObjectiveC/nil-227m0> if the observation isn’t the result of a [`VNCoreMLRequest`](/documentation/Vision/VNCoreMLRequest) operation.

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