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characteristic

adjective
  1. typical or distinctive
    “heard my friend's characteristic laugh”
noun
  1. a distinguishing quality
    distinction
  2. any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
    device characteristic
  3. a prominent attribute or aspect of something
    feature
  4. the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm
    “in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2”