characteristic
Meaning of characteristic
- A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
- The integer part of a logarithm.
- The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).
- For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.
The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number.
adjective
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
Information about characteristic
- The plural form of characteristic is: characteristics.
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Hyphenation of characteristic
char-ac-ter-is-tic
- It consists of 5 syllables and 14 chars.
- characteristic is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
characteristic synonyms
Meaning feature:
Meaning :
attribute, hallmark, idiosyncrasy, mannerism, quality, tendency, trademark, trait, distinctive, exclusive, idiosyncratic, indicative, representative, signature, specific, typical
characteristic antonyms
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Translation of characteristic
- German: Zug, Merkmal, charakteristisch
- French: trait, caractéristique
- Portuguese: característica, caraterístico
- Spanish: característica, característico
- Italian: tratto, caratteristica, caratteristico
Words that rhyme with characteristic
Hesychastic, Hudibrastic, Iastic, Mastic, Neoplastic, Permlastic, Phantasiastic, Scholastic, Silastic, achondroplastic, aclastic, aeroelastic, agelastic, agranuloplastic, alloplastic, ameloblastic, aminoplastic, amphiblastic, amyloclastic, amyloplastic, anaclastic, anaeroplastic, anankastic, anaplastic, anelastic, anemoclastic, anergastic, anerythroplastic, angioblastic, angioimmunoblastic, angiospastic, animastic, antiblastic, anticlastic, antidynastic, antiecclesiastic, antienthusiastic, antineoplastic, antiorgastic, antipastic, antiphrastic, antiplastic, antischolastic, antispastic, antonomastic, aplastic, archecclesiastic, archiblastic, arthroplastic, atmoclastic