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char•ac•ter•is•tic

Pronunciation: (kar"ik-tu-ris'tik), [key]
—adj.
Also,char"ac•ter•is'ti•cal.pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.

—n.
1. a distinguishing feature or quality: Generosity is his chief characteristic.
2. Math.
a. the integral part of a common logarithm. Cf. mantissa.
b. the exponent of 10 in a number expressed in scientific notation.
c. the smallest positive integer n such that each element of a given ring added to itself n times results in 0.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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