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Characteristic

adjective

Typical or distinctive. "Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn" , "Stripes characteristic of the zebra"

noun

A prominent attribute or aspect of something. Synonym: feature. "Generosity is one of his best characteristics"

A distinguishing quality.

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

Any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions. Synonym: device characteristic.

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"Characteristic" Quotes from Famous Books

... rapture. Yesterday brought together as intelligent and perhaps as refined an audience of ladies as might he gathered in the city. Miss Anthony was dressed with her usual simplicity in black silk. She read the call for the convention and made thereon one of her characteristic addresses, full ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... are different: Charlie has such peculiarities of genius. The artistic nature, you know, requires soothing." Here they stopped, and rang at the door of a neat little house, and were ushered into a pair of those characteristic parlors which show that they have been arranged by a home-worshipper, and a mother. There were plants and birds and flowers, and little genre pictures of children, animals, and household interiors, arranged with a ...

— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... traces of a belief in this worst and most malicious order of fairies among the Border wilds. Dr. Leyden has introduced such a dwarf into his ballad entitled The Cout of Keeldar, and has not forgot his characteristic detestation of ...

— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... royal mandate ever went unheeded in any part of the king's domain. These forty intendants were the men who really bridged the great administrative gulf which lay between the royal court and the people. They were the most conspicuous, the most important, and the most characteristic officials of the old regime. Without them the royal authority would have tumbled over by its own sheer top-heaviness. They were the eyes and ears of the monarchy; they provided the monarch with fourscore eager hands to work his sovereign will. The intendants, in turn, had their underlings, ...

— The Seigneurs of Old Canada: - A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism • William Bennett Munro

... restricted and is so small that all who can employ wires will find it necessary to do so, leaving the ether available for those who have no other means of communication. This quality of the ether which thus restricts its use is really a characteristic of the greatest value to mankind, for it forms a universal party line, so to speak, connecting together all creation, so that anybody anywhere, who connects with it in the proper manner, may be heard by every one else so connected. ...

— Masters of Space - Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty • Walter Kellogg Towers

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