a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | The quality of involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument). |
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | The quality of tending to spread; especially of tending to invade healthy tissue. |
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 | |