characteristic meaning
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WCharacteristic
- Characteristic (from the Greek word for a property, attribute or trait of an entity) may refer to:
- In physics and engineering, any characteristic curve that shows the relationship between certain input and output parameters, for example:
- I-V or current-voltage characteristic, the current in a circuit as a function of the applied voltage
- Receiver operating characteristic
- In navigation:
- Light characteristic, pattern of a lighted beacon
- In mathematics:
- Characteristic (algebra) of a ring, the smallest common cycle length of the ring's addition operation
- NounPLcharacteristicsSUF-istic
- a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
- (mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm.
- (nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc).
- (algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.
- a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
- AdjectiveCOMmore characteristicSUPmost characteristic
- Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The goth subculture has its own mode of dress, and it has a characteristic musical style.
- Three different groups of CI children reflect different preimplant characteristics and show different patterns of skill achievement.
- For instance, the presence of spirocyst is characteristic of some anthozoans [ 22 ].
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- As the chest wall and lungs hyperinflate, they progressively resist further inflation by virtue of their elastic recoil characteristics.
- DME was defined as the presence of any retinal thickening or hard exsudates at the posterior pole irrespective of center involvement or ischemic characteristics.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of characteristic in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary