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   Char·ac·ter·is·tic

   /ˌker(ə)ktəˈristik/

   

   adjective

   • 1. typical of a particular person, place, or thing: "large farms are characteristic of this area"

   noun

   • 1. a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it: "inherited characteristics such as blood groups"
   • 2. the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from French caractéristique or medieval Latin characteristicus, from Greek kharaktēristikos, from kharaktēr ‘a stamping tool’.

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