Usually means: Distinctive trait defining an entity.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. characteristic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. characteristic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. characteristic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. characteristic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. characteristic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Characteristic, characteristic: Wordnik
  7. characteristic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. characteristic: Wiktionary
  9. characteristic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. characteristic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. characteristic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. characteristic: Dictionary.com
  13. characteristic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Characteristic (algebra), Characteristic (exponent notation), Characteristic (field), Characteristic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Characteristic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. characteristic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. characteristic: Rhymezone
  18. Characteristic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. characteristic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. characteristic: Free Dictionary
  21. characteristic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. characteristic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. characteristic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. characteristic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Characteristic (mathematics), characteristic: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Characteristic (algebra), Characteristic (mathematics), characteristic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Characteristic (mathematics), characteristic: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Characteristic: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. characteristic, characteristic, characteristic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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