Characteristic

Characteristic stands for:

• part of the interpretation

In mathematics:

• Characteristic (algebra) , the characteristic of a ring or body
• Characteristic of a partial differential equation, see method of characteristics
• Euler characteristic , a topological invariant

In science and technology:

• the relationship between electrical current and voltage, see current-voltage characteristic
• the angle dependence of antennas and microphones, see directional characteristics
• the tripping characteristics of automatic circuit breakers , see circuit breaker # tripping characteristics
• the representation of an exponent for floating point numbers in computers, see floating point number

See also:

• feature
• Characterization for the representation of people in narrative form.
• Characteristica universalis, Leibniz's universal language
• Character (disambiguation)

Wiktionary: Characteristics  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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