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UK
/kˌæɹɪktəɹˈɪstɪk/
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[ US /ˌkɛɹəktɝˈɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌkɛɹəktɝˈɪstɪk/ ]
NOUN
- the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
- a distinguishing quality
- any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
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a prominent attribute or aspect of something
the map showed roads and other features
generosity is one of his best characteristics
ADJECTIVE
-
typical or distinctive
stripes characteristic of the zebra
red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn
heard my friend's characteristic laugh
How To Use characteristic In A Sentence
- During adolescence , boys and girls will take on secondary sexual characteristics.
- However, in the intestine, small amounts are converted to the more soluble mercuric salts, which are absorbed, expressing its characteristic toxic effects.
- Similarly, a firm may value worker characteristics that are unobservable to employment agencies but quite observable to family and friends.
- So that even in their case the characteristic of the Mosaic dispensation was theopneustic, rather than theologic. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Kant defined "disinterestedness in aesthetic appreciation" as fundamental and important characteristics in "Critique of Judgment", which was also seen as the "quality" in beauty.
- The duke was characteristically droll about his political career.
- Effects of bagging on loquat fruit appearance, postharvest characteristics and quality were studied.
- The problem of environmental pollution roots in the characteristic of public goods and negative externality.
- In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
- I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland