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01
serving to identify or distinguish something or someone
Examples
His characteristic wit and humor always brightened the mood in the room.
It ’s hard to ignore the characteristic smell of coffee in the morning, especially in this café.
Characteristic
Examples
Her kindness is a characteristic everyone notices.
One characteristic of good friends is loyalty.
02
the whole number part of a logarithm, which represents the exponent of the base when expressing the number in scientific notation
Examples
In log₁₀(500 ), the characteristic is 2 because 500 can be written as 5 × 10².
For log₁₀(0.01 ), the characteristic is -2, as 0.01 is equivalent to 10⁻².
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