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characteristics

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for characteristics.

Editorial note

Since, you know, humans have been selecting and cultivating plants for specific characteristics since the beginning of agriculture.

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Quick take

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of characteristics gathered in one view.

noun

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

noun

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

noun

(nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for characteristics.

noun

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

noun

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

noun

(nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).

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(algebra, field theory, ring theory) 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.

Example sentences

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Since, you know, humans have been selecting and cultivating plants for specific characteristics since the beginning of agriculture.

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Who is the limiting factor, and how can you persuade people with those characteristics to join your site?

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Reliance on certain, newly-deprecated things like gnu hash_map which has performance characteristics important to our specific application.

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Yes but process node characteristics such as the gate length and/or the silicon film thickness should be relatively similar.

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These characteristics are useful for writing programs that coordinate interactions between humans.

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Our team brings passion and dedication to this mission, and we seek out these characteristics in people looking to join us.

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That battery has very poor deep cycle and recharging characteristics.

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But Clojure has more types, with different behaviour characteristics.

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The trade-off for that speed was horrible fuel economy and poor takeoff and landing characteristics (extremely high drag - it had to use afterburners to get airborne).

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We're at the end of a cycle, so there's a real sense of pop investing and other characteristics that come with it, such as what happened in 1999.

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Also, not all these characteristics are the same.

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* Performance characteristics: This can be political as well, because in a sense it's a negotiation between the developer and the consumer.

Quote examples

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This is a lesson that was regularly drummed into me in the consulting corporation where I used to work..." Aping the grooming and characteristics for the sake of advancement and favour, sans improvement.

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With the exception of "teaching rationality" as an explicit goal, the "Characteristics of rational fiction" are just basic guidelines for writing good fiction (science fiction, if you include the "topics" characteristic).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use characteristics in a sentence?

Since, you know, humans have been selecting and cultivating plants for specific characteristics since the beginning of agriculture.

What does characteristics mean?

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

What part of speech is characteristics?

characteristics is commonly used as noun.