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Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
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A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
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A definable or measurable feature of a process, product, or variable.
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population characteristic is something we want to estimate about the population. Common examples of population characteristics are totals and averages for variables. Statisticians often call these characteristics "parameters".
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Some individualistic feature, attribute, etc. that serves to identify and 'characterize' something. Generally used synonymously with " trait" in discussion of personality.
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a prominent aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics"
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typical or distinctive; "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra"
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a fact which tells us something about the nature of a things
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a feature that helps identify someone or something
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a meta-level attribute which describes a dataset
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an attribute of modeling techniques
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a non-common attribute used to divide a class
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a special feature that makes something different from others
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an element that contributes to local distinctiveness (eg narrow winding lanes, vernacular building style).
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a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
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a distinguishing trait, feature or quality
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A distinguishing trait, feature, quality or property.
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A distinguishing trait, quality or property (noun) .
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a quality or feature that makes something different from others One characteristic used to identify the meadowlark is the black "v" on its breast.
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any distinct property or attribute of a product, process or service that can be described and measured to determine conformance or nonconformity to specified requirements.
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A specific phenotypic trait, such as crimp or fineness.
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n. A distinctive feature.
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The timing of the flash/dark periods of light output from a lighthouse. Lighthouses in a given geographical area will each have a distinctive characteristic so that a mariner may determine which of the lights he is observing.
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A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
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An attribute, structure or function that can be observed due to action of one or more genes.
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A feature, quality, attribute, or property of writing.
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A distinguishing trait, quality, property, or attribute.
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