a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles |
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin |
a prominent attribute or aspect of something | a prominent attribute or aspect of something |
the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind |
| the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater |
| a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine |