Characterisation
n.
chiefly British English spelling of characterization; for spelling, see -ize.
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- Characterise
to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry. to describe the character or individual quality of: He characterized her in a few well-chosen words. to attribute character to: to characterize him as a coward. verb (transitive) to be a characteristic of: loneliness characterized the place to distinguish […]
- Characterised
to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry. to describe the character or individual quality of: He characterized her in a few well-chosen words. to attribute character to: to characterize him as a coward. verb (transitive) to be a characteristic of: loneliness characterized the place to distinguish […]
- Characterize
to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry. to describe the character or individual quality of: He characterized her in a few well-chosen words. to attribute character to: to characterize him as a coward. verb (transitive) to be a characteristic of: loneliness characterized the place to distinguish […]
- Characteristic
Also, characteristical. 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. Compare mantissa. the exponent of 10 in a number […]
- Characteristic-curve
Photography. a graph used in sensitometry to show the relationship between exposure time and image density under constant developing conditions. noun (photog) a graph of the density of a particular photographic material plotted against the logarithm of the exposure producing this density