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"CHARACTERISTICS" is a plural of: characteristic. |
Date "CHARACTERISTICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
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Aerospace | Lines or surfaces associated with a partial differential equation, or with a set of such equations, which are at all points tangent to characteristics directions, determined by certain specified linear combinations of the equations.The use of these lines or surfaces may facilitate the solution of the equations and is known as the method of characteristics. The method has been particularly successful, for example, in the problem of finite-amplitude expansion and shock waves. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CHRISTINE | English | Characteristics and Requirements of Information Systems based on Traffic data in an Integrated Network Environment | N/A |
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Crosswords: CHARACTERISTICS |
| Specialty definitions using "CHARACTERISTICS": crowded TFT characteristics, crowded thin-film transistor characteristics, Cultural Characteristics ♦ mean number of adult equivalents according to certain basic characteristics, method of characteristics, mine-ventilation fan characteristics ♦ Saxon Characteristics, Sex Characteristics. (references) |
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Screenplays | I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | P-38 Flight Characteristics (1943) | |
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 | Shown is a chart of characteristics comparing normal and cancer cells' cytoplasm, nucleus, nucleolus and chromatin. See artwork: GR-23. Credit: Pat Kenny (artist). |  | Seen is an artist's rendition of normal and cancer cells side-by-side. The normal and cancerous characteristics are identified. See artwork: GR-23. Credit: Pat Kenny (artist). |
 | The important identifying characteristics of a Wyeomyia mosquito larva are that it lacks the median ventral brush and it has comb scales. Credit: CDC. |  | With slight magnification, the main body divisions and gross morphological characteristics of mosquito larvae can be observed. In this manner, scientists can quickly identify larvae in the field, rather than returning to the laboratory. Credit: CDC. |
 | Building shaker in the doorway of a building Used to determine earthquake engineering characteristics of buildings C&GS was the first organization to undertake engineering seismology studies Party of William D. Patterson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ground shaker at Position "A" Used to determine earthquake engineering characteristics of buildings C&GS was the first organization to undertake engineering seismology studies Party of William D. Patterson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Conductivity-Temperature-Depth measuring instrument for studying characteristics of water column. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | An abrupt change in water characteristics at the point where glacial melt-water meets oceanic water. In Saginaw Channel. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | CTD rosette being deployed to study water temperature, salinity, and chemical characteristics. Working off the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Spring-loaded grab sampler used to determine bottom characteristics. Credit: Fisheries. |
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Aristophanes | You have all the characteristics of a poplular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. |
Philip Dormer Stanhope | Women are much more like each other than men; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany undertakes to prohibit and repress by seizure and by other appropriate remedies the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale in its territory of all goods bearing upon themselves or their usual get-up or wrappings any marks, names, devices, or description whatsoever which are calculated to convey directly or indirectly a false indication of the origin, type, nature, or special characteristics of such goods. (reference) |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | How cruelty, falsehood, and cowardice grew to be characteristics by which certain families are distinguished as much as by their coat of arms. |
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Health | Investigators are searching for those characteristics. (references) | |
Tests can also probe the characteristics of infectious germs. (references) | ||
Treatment also varies depending on the characteristics of the patient. (references) | ||
Business | A fuel cell also shares many of the characteristics of a battery. (references) | |
Human factors include the noise level, vibration characteristics and ergonomics of the machines. (references) | ||
There is debate as to the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) and Patient Information Leaflets (PIL). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kazakhstan | Also defined as state secrets are basic economic information such as the volumes and scientific characteristics of national mineral reserves and the amount of government debt owed to foreign creditors. (references) |
Dominican Republic | NGO representatives working in rural areas reported that decisions to deport often were made by lower ranking members of the security forces, sometimes based upon the racial characteristics of the deportees. (references) | |
Discrimination | Argentina | The Constitution and law provide for equal treatment for all citizens, and the law provides for prison terms of up to 3 years for discrimination based on race, religion, nationality, ideology, political opinion, sex, economic position, social class, or physical characteristics. (references) |
Economic History | Spain | Regional characteristics influence buying patterns. (references) |
Mexico | Each of these offices serves regions with distinct commercial and industrial characteristics. (references) | |
Uk | Competition or product characteristics may encourage U.S. exporters to consider manufacturing in Britain. (references) | |
Human Rights | Honduras | The Public Ministry is investigating 36 other cases with the characteristics of extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions. (references) |
Minorities | Oman | There are no laws prohibiting discrimination based on racial or ethnic characteristics. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Urban neighborhoods still have identifiable ethnic characteristics, and major political parties tend to have identifiable ethnic and regional bases, although interethnic marriage increasingly is common in urban areas. (references) | |
Political Economy | UNITED KINGDOM | The UK's development assistance program has certain "tied aid" characteristics. (references) |
ITALY | Certain characteristics of the Italian economy impede growth and reduce import demand. (references) | |
JAPAN | The U.S. government agrees that labeling is necessary when there are health or safety reasons, such as a presence of an allergen, or changes in food characteristics, such as altered nutritional content. (references) | |
Political Rights | Qatar | The political institutions combine the characteristics of a traditional Bedouin tribal state and a modern bureaucracy. (references) |
Trade | Bulgaria | The Agency issues approvals attesting to electrical safety and functional characteristics. (references) |
Israel | Reliability and on-time payments for goods and services are generally considered one of the characteristics of Israeli business people. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Remember, two of the many characteristics of the dominant media culture today are arrogance and superiority, by design. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. |
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| "CHARACTERISTICS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CHARACTERISTICS" is used about 3,770 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 3,770 | 2,580 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CHARACTERISTICS": crowded TFT characteristics ♦ Cultural Characteristics ♦ distribution of households according to the characteristics of housing and of the households'equipment by degree of urbanisation ♦ distribution of households according to the characteristics of housing and of the households'equipment by degree of urbanization ♦ distribution of households according to the characteristics of housing and of the households'equipment by type of aggregated household ♦ Epidemiologic Study Characteristics ♦ Family Characteristics ♦ mean number of adult equivalents according to certain basic characteristics ♦ operational characteristics ♦ personal characteristics ♦ personality Characteristics ♦ playback characteristics ♦ Population Characteristics ♦ reproducing characteristics ♦ Residence Characteristics ♦ Sex Characteristics ♦ sexual characteristics ♦ weir with linear flow characteristics. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "CHARACTERISTICS": flight-characteristics. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CHARACTERISTICS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 特徵 (features, trait). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | karakteristik (characteristic, characteristic curve, exponent, features, traits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | characteristica (characteristic, features, traits), onderscheidingskenmerken (characteristic, features, traits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vedetty diodi (a two-terminal device whose characteristics are fundamentally those of a grown junction, grown diode, grown junction, grown-junction diode), tuuliolot (wind characteristics, wind climate, wind conditions, wind regime), tuuliolosuhteet (wind characteristics, wind climate, wind conditions, wind regime), toistovaste (playback characteristics, reproducing characteristic, reproducing characteristics), toistokorjauskäyrä (playback characteristics, reproducing characteristics), taajuusvaste (playback characteristics, reproducing characteristics), lajin tunnusmerkit ja ominaisuudet (characteristics and qualities of the species), kloridi (chlorides prevent inhibition owing to their penetrating characteristics), kaksiasentosäädin (controller with 2 characteristics, controller with two characteristics, two step controller), inhibitio (chlorides prevent inhibition owing to their penetrating characteristics, inhibition), hitsauslaskuissa tarvittavia käsitteitä (characteristics to be considered in weld calculations), erikoisleima (peculiar characteristics), biotooppien tunnusmerkit ja ominaisuudet (characteristics and qualities of the biotops). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | caractéristique (characteristic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | charakteristik (description). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χαρακτηριστικά (characteristically, features, typically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תאור אופי, כרקטריסטיק". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jellegzetesség (attribute, characteristic, criteria, criterion, distinctness, feature, physiognomy, proper, trait, type), harcászat-technikai jellemzõk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | caratteristica (character, characteristic, distinction, feature, hallmark, peculiarity, property, trait). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 性状 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいじょう (clean, disposition, nature, normal, normalcy, normality, political affairs, political situation, pure, purity, the emperor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aracteristicschay características (basic features, peculiarities, technical features). (various references) характеристика (biased exponent, character reference, characteristic, characterization, curve, feature, pattern, performance, records, specification, testimonial). (various references) kvalifikacije (qualifications). (various references) caracteri/sticas (traits), característica (characteristic, feature, peculiarity, property, special feature, trait). (various references) vindförhållande (wind characteristics, wind climate, wind conditions, wind regime), tvåpunktsregulator (controller with 2 characteristics, controller with two characteristics, two step controller), proportionellt skibord (proportional weir, weir with linear flow characteristics), odlad diod (a two-terminal device whose characteristics are fundamentally those of a grown junction, grown diode, grown junction, grown-junction diode), odlad övergång (a two-terminal device whose characteristics are fundamentally those of a grown junction, grown diode, grown junction, grown-junction diode), förhållanden av betydelse för svetsarnas beräkning (characteristics to be considered in weld calculations), biotopers karakteristiker och kvaliteter (characteristics and qualities of the biotops), biotopers karaktäristiker och kvaliteter (characteristics and qualities of the biotops), arters karakteristiker och kvaliteter (characteristics and qualities of the species), arters karaktäristiker och kvaliteter (characteristics and qualities of the species). (various references) teithi (qualities, traits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"CHARACTERISTICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caracteristic, caracteristics, charachteristic, characterist, characteristcs, charecteristics, charicteristics, chracteristic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHARACTERISTICS" (pronounced ke'rukteri"stiks) |
| 6 | -i" s t i k s | ballistics, Criminalistics, linguistics, logistics, mystics, statistics. |
| 5 | -s t i k s | acoustics, diagnostics, domestics, gymnastics, onomastics, plastics, thermoplastics. |
| 4 | -t i k s | acrobatics, aerobatics, aeronautics, aesthetics, analytics, anesthetics, antibiotics, antics, asthmatics, astronautics, athletics, attics, automatics, batiks, charismatics, cosmetics, critics, diabetics, diuretics, exotics, fanatics, genetics, geopolitics, hypnotics, informatics, kinetics, Magnetics, mathematics, narcotics, numismatics, optics, orthodontics, phonetics, prosthetics, robotics, romantics, semantics, semiotics, skeptics, synthetics, systematics, tactics, therapeutics. |
| 3 | -i k s | academics, acrylics, aerobics, aerodynamics, affix, alcoholics, analgesics, anorexics, apparatchiks, appendix, astrophysics, atmospherics, avionics, basics, beatniks, bioethics, biologics, biophysics, bishoprics, calisthenics, Calix, calyx, catholics, ceramics, cervix, civics, classics, clerics, clinics, comics, conics, cynics, demographics, dynamics, eccentrics, econometrics, economics, electrics, electrodynamics, electronics, epics, epidemics, ergonomics, ethics, ethnics, eugenics, fabrics, forensics, generics, geometrics, geriatrics, gimmicks, graphics, harmonics, helix, hemodynamics, heroics, hieroglyphics, histrionics, hydraulics, hysterics, ionics, italics, kibbutzniks, limericks, lyrics, macroeconomics, matrix, mavericks, mechanics, medics, metaphysics, metrics, microeconomics, microelectronics, micrographics, mimics, mnemonics, mosaics, Nucleonics, obstetrics, onyx, oryx, panics, paramedics, Pediatrics, Phenix, Phoenix, phonics, photovoltaics, physics, polemics, prefix, psychics, publics, pyrotechnics, refuseniks, relics, reprographics, republics, sonics, specifics, sputniks, stoics, suffix, Technics, tectonics, theatrics, tonics, topics, toxics, tropics, workaholics. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-h-i-i-r-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: characteristic. | |
-3 letters: catachrestic, criticasters. | |
-4 letters: catachresis, catechistic, criticaster, scratchiest. | |
-5 letters: acritarchs, archaistic, architects, arthritics, artistries, carritches, catechists, cathartics, characters, chastities, cicatrices, earthstars, scarcities, scratchers, scratchier, starchiest, tetrarchic, tracheitis, triarchies, trichiases. | |
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