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- Dictionarycharacteristic/ˌkarɪktəˈrɪstɪk/
adjective
- 1. typical of a particular person, place, or thing: "he began with a characteristic attack on extremism"
noun
- 1. a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them: "certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study"
- 2. the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.
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The meaning of CHARACTERISTIC is a distinguishing trait, quality, or property. How to use characteristic in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Characteristic.
a typical or noticeable quality of someone or something: Unfortunately a big nose is a family characteristic. Sentimentality seems a characteristic of all the writers of that period. The male bird displays (= has) several characteristics which distinguish him from the female. Fewer examples.
Characteristic definition: pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive. See examples of CHARACTERISTIC used in a sentence.
A characteristic is a quality or feature that is typical of someone or something.
If something is a characteristic of someone or something, it is a feature you would expect. A characteristic of classical-style architecture is large stone columns. A characteristic of poodles is their pom-pom like tails.
CHARACTERISTIC definition: 1. a typical or obvious quality that makes one person or thing different from others: 2. typical…. Learn more.
Definition of characteristic noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
characteristic meaning, definition, what is characteristic: a quality or feature of something or som...: Learn more.
Definition of characteristic adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. a distinguishing quality, attribute, or trait. 2. (Mathematics) maths. a. the integral part of a common logarithm, indicating the order of magnitude of the associated number: the characteristic of 2.4771 is 2. Compare mantissa. b. another name for exponent, used esp in number representation in computing. adj.
