characteristic

What does characteristic mean?

• noun

  a prominent attribute or aspect of something

• noun

  any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions

• noun

  a distinguishing quality

• noun

  the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

• adjective

  typical or distinctive

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