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char·ac·ter·is·tic  (krk-t-rstk)
adj.
Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive: heard my friend's characteristic laugh; the stripes that are characteristic of the zebra.
n.
1. A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
2. Mathematics The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa: The characteristic of the logarithm 6.3214 is 6.
3. Mathematics The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulus 12 have a characteristic of 12.

charac·ter·isti·cal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.characteristically - in characteristic manner; "he arrived characteristically late"
uncharacteristically - in uncharacteristic manner; "he was uncharacteristically cool"
Translations
characteristically [ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪkəlɪ] ADVcaracterísticamente, de modo característico
he was in characteristically jovial moodcomo es típico de él, estaba de muy buen talante
characteristically [ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪkli] adv
[modest, optimistic, robust] → typiquement
(= as usual) → comme à son habitude
(= predictably) → comme on pouvait s'y attendre
characteristically
advtypisch
characteristically [ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪklɪ] advtipicamente


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This question disposed of, Kate communicated her uncle's desire about the empty house, to which Mrs Nickleby assented with equal readiness, characteristically remarking, that, on the fine evenings, it would be a pleasant amusement for her to walk to the West end to fetch her daughter home; and no less characteristically forgetting, that there were such things as wet nights and bad weather to be encountered in almost every week of the year.
For while those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter; excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met, and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout.
My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
 
 
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