- pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- a distinguishing feature or quality: Generosity is his chief characteristic.
- Mathematics.
- the integral part of a common logarithm.
- the exponent of 10 in a number expressed in scientific notation.
- the smallest positive integer n such that each element of a given ring added to itself n times results in 0.
- a distinguishing quality, attribute, or trait
- maths
- the integral part of a common logarithm, indicating the order of magnitude of the associated number
- another name for exponent, used esp in number representation in computing
- indicative of a distinctive quality, etc; typical
