Usually means: Qualities or features distinguishing entities.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. characteristics: Merriam-Webster
  2. characteristics: Collins English Dictionary
  3. characteristics: Vocabulary.com
  4. Characteristics, characteristics: Wordnik
  5. characteristics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. characteristics: Wiktionary
  7. characteristics: Dictionary.com
  8. characteristics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Characteristics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. characteristics: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Characteristics: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. characteristics: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Characteristics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. characteristics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. characteristics: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. characteristics: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (characteristic)

adjective:  Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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.).
noun:  (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.
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