Meaning of characteristic | Babel Free

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1. A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.
2. Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing
3. The integer part of a logarithm.
4. Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive: heard my friend's characteristic laugh; the stripes that are characteristic of the zebra.
5. A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior
6. The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).
7. The part of a logarithm to the base ten that is to the left of the decimal point. For example, if 2.749 is a logarithm, 2 is the characteristic. Compare mantissa.
8. The integer part of a logarithm
9. 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.
10. Serving to identify or set apart an individual or group:distinctive, individual, peculiar, typical, vintage.
11. The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.)
12. A distinctive element:attribute, character, feature, mark, peculiarity, property, quality, savor, trait.
13. 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
14. (negative uncharacteristic) typical (of a person etc). He spoke with characteristic shyness; That kind of behaviour is characteristic of him. kenmerkend مُمَيِّز характерен característico charakteristický, typický bezeichnend karakteristisk χαρακτηριστικόςcaracterístico iseloomulik منش؛ مشخصه luonteenomainen typiqueמאפיין विशेष svojstven, značajan, karakterističan jellemző khas einkennandi, dæmigerður caratteristico, tipico 特有な 특유한 charakteringas, būdingas raksturīgs tipikal kenmerkendkarakte...
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15. a typical quality. It is one of his characteristics to be obstinate. eienskappe ميزَه، صِفَةٌ مُمَيِّزه отличителна черта característica vlastnost, charakteristický rys die Eigenschaft karaktertræk χαρακτηριστικόcaracterística iseloomuomadus خصوصیت ominaispiirre caractéristique לְאַפייֵן विशिष्ट लक्षण značajka, karakteristika ismertetőjel ciri khas (persónu-/skapgerðar)einkenni caratteristica 特徴 특성 bruožas raksturīga pazīme sifat eigenschapkarakteregenskap, trekk, kjennetegncecha ځانكړى ، خاص...
16. kenmerkend بِصورَةٍ مُمَيِّزَه типично tipicamente charakteristicky bezeichnenderweise karakteristiskt χαρακτηριστικάtípicamente iseloomulikult بطور ویژه luonteenomaisesti typiquementאופייני विशिष्टापूर्वक značajan, svojstven, karakterističan jellemző módon secara khas á dæmigerðan hátt tipicamente 特徴的に 특징적으로 charakteringai, būdingai, tipiškai raksturīgi bersifat karakteristiekkarakteristisk charakterystycznie نمونه یی tipicamente tipic; caracte­ristic характерно charakteristicky značilno kar...
17. karakterisering وَصْف، تَصْوير، خَلْقُ الشَّخْصِيّاتالرِّوائِيّه أو المَسْرَحِيَّه характерстика caracterização charakteristika, podpis die Charakterisierung karakterisering χαρακτηρισμόςcaracterización iseloomustus توصیف luonnehdinta caracté- risation אִפיוּן דְמוּת चरित्रचित्रण karakterizacija jellemzés karakterisasi skapgerðarlÿsing caratterizzazione 特徴づけ (특징, 인품 등의) 묘사 charakteristika, apibūdinimas raksturojums; raksturošana penyifatan karakterisering karakterskildring/-tegning, karakteri...
18. A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
19. Mathematics The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa: The characteristic of the logarithm 6.3214 is 6.
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“It is evident, moreover, that as the logarithms of numbers, which are tenfold, the one of the other, do not differ except in their characteristics, it is sufficient that the tables contain the fractional parts only of the logarithms.”

“As the sine and cosine are always proper fractions their logarithms are negative, i.e. have negative characteristics. When we are given an angle, it is impossible to say, from inspection of the angle, what the characteristic of the logarithm of its sine, cosine or tangent may be; so the characteristics have to be printed with the mantissae.”

“Similarly, the characteristic for .003 is −3, and the characteristic for .0003 is −4.”

“The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number.”

“1962 [John Wiley & Sons], Nathan Jacobson, Lie Algebras, 1979, Dover, page 289, In this chapter we study the problem of classifying the finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras over an arbitrary field of characteristic 0.”

“1992, Simeon Ivanov (translator), P. M. Gudivok, E. Ya. Pogorilyak, On Modular Representations of Finite Groups over Integral Domains, Simeon Ivanov (editor), Galois Theory, Rings, Algebraic Groups and Their Applications, American Mathematical Society, page 87, Let R be a Noetherian factorial ring of characteristic p which is not a field.”

“Traditionally, a complete, discretely valued field of characteristic zero, the maximal ideal of whose valuation ring is generated by the prime number p, has been called a p-adic field. In our terminology, the valuation ring of a p-adic field is a Cohen ring of characteristic zero whose residue field has characteristic p, and consequently a p-adic field is simply the quotient field of such a Cohen ring.”

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