• Catalan: característic , característica
• Czech: charakteristický
• Finnish: tunnusomainen
• French: caractéristique
• German: charakteristisch, bezeihnend, kennzeichnend, typisch
• Interlingua: characteristic
• Portuguese: característico, característica
• Serbian: osobina , značajka
• Spanish: característico, característica
• Swedish: karakteristisk

• Finnish: tuntomerkki, erityispiirre
• German: Merkmal, Eigenschaft, Charakteristik, Eigenart
• Portuguese: característica
• Swedish: karakteristik

• Finnish: karakteristika
• German: Kennwert, Kenngröße, Charakteristik
• Portuguese: característica

• ttbc Catalan: característica
• ttbc French: caractéristique
• ttbc Ido: karakteristiko
• ttbc Interlingua: characteristica
• ttbc Spanish: característica

Characteristic has several meanings:

• in mathematics
  • characteristic function
  • Euler characteristic
  • characteristic (algebra)
  • characteristic subgroup
  • method of characteristics (partial differential equations)
• in physics and engineering
  • any characteristic curve that shows the relationship between certain input- and output parameters, e.g.
  • An I-V or current-voltage characteristic is the current in a circuit as a function of the applied voltage
  • Receiver-Operator Characteristic

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