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   characteristic

   /ˌkarɪktəˈrɪstɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. typical of a particular person, place, or thing: "he began with a characteristic attack on extremism"

   noun

   • 1. a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them: "certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study"
   • 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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