characteristic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

   “All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.”

2. isim A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.
3. isim The integer part of a logarithm.

   “It is evident, moreover, that as the logarithms of numbers, which are tenfold, the one of the other, do not differ except in their characteristics, it is sufficient that the tables contain the fractional parts only of the logarithms.”

4. isim The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).
5. isim For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.

   “The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number.”