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General dictionaries General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. characteristic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. characteristic: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. characteristic: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. characteristic: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. characteristic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. characteristic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. characteristic: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. characteristic: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. characteristic: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  10. characteristic: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  11. Characteristic (algebra), Characteristic (field), Characteristic (field theory), Characteristic (lighthouse), Characteristic (mathematics), Characteristic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  12. Characteristic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. characteristic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. characteristic: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. Characteristic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. characteristic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. characteristic: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  18. characteristic: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  19. characteristic: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  20. characteristic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  21. characteristic: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  22. characteristic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. characteristic: The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) [home, info]
  2. characteristic: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Characteristic: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. characteristic: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Characteristic (mathematics), characteristic: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. characteristic: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. characteristic: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. Characteristic (mathematics), characteristic: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Characteristic: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Characteristic: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  3. characteristic: MATH SPOKEN HERE! [home, info]
  4. characteristic, characteristic, characteristic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

Quick definitions (characteristic)

noun:  a distinguishing quality
noun:  any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
noun:  the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
noun:  a prominent aspect of something ("Generosity is one of his best characteristics")
adjective:  typical or distinctive ("Heard my friend's characteristic laugh")

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