characteristic

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characteristic
karəktəˈrɪstɪk Listen
Meanings
adjective
  • typical of a particular person, place, or thing.
    E.g. he began with a characteristic attack on extremism
noun
  • a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them.
    E.g. certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study
  • the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.

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