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characteristic
Adjectivecharacteristic has 1 sense
characteristic - typical or distinctive; "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra" Antonyms:uncharacteristic, uncharacteristic of, atypical
Nouncharacteristic has 4 senses
feature, characteristic - a prominent aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics" --1is a kind ofproperty, attribute, dimension --1has particulars:
characteristic - the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 --3is a kind ofinteger, whole number