Usually means: Maps set elements to complex numbers.
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  1. characteristic function: Merriam-Webster
  2. characteristic function: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. characteristic function: Collins English Dictionary
  4. characteristic function: Wiktionary
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  6. characteristic function: Dictionary.com
  7. Characteristic function (probability), Characteristic function: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. characteristic function: Glossary of research economics

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  1. characteristic function: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  2. Characteristic Function: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. characteristic function, characteristic function, characteristic function, characteristic function: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (characteristic function)

noun:  (mathematical analysis) A function which is equal to 1 for all points in its domain which belong to a given set, and is equal to 0 for all points in the domain which do not belong to that given set.
noun:  (mathematics, probability theory) A complex function completely defining the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable

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