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Word: Characteristic
Speech Type: Noun
mid 17th century: from French caractéristique or medieval Latin characteristicus, from Greek kharaktēristikos, from kharaktēr ‘a stamping tool’
ˌkarɪktəˈrɪstɪk
a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them
Short Definition:feature or quality belonging typically to person
Examples:- certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study
the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.
Short Definition:whole number or integral part of logarithm
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