Characteristic
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Characteristic
adjective
- Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive.
"heard my friend's characteristic laugh; the stripes that are characteristic of the zebra."
noun
- A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
- The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa.
"The characteristic of the logarithm 6.3214 is 6."
- The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulo 12 have a characteristic of 12.
- Pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character; exhibiting the peculiar qualities of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive: as, a characteristic distinction; with characteristic generosity, he emptied his purse.
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