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What does characteristic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
Noun
  1. a distinguishing feature of a person or thing
  2. (mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
  3. (nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
  4. (algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
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