Definitions
typical or distinctive
Word origin
From Ancient Greek χαρακτηριστικός (kharaktēristikós), from χαρακτηρίζω (kharaktērízō, “to designate by a characteristic mark”), from χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “a mark, character”). By surface analysis, character + -istic.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
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01“Typical trait”14 letters
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