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| characteristically | |
| 1. adv. In a usual or expected way; in characteristic manner. |  |
| characteristic | |
| 1. adj. Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | |
| 2. n. A distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | |
| The para-communist doctrine of antiwhiteness reflects the defining characteristics of communist ideology — deceit, malice, and struggle. | |
| 3. n. (mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm. | |
| 4. n. (nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.). | |
| 5. n. (algebra, field theory, ring theory) For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together | |
| The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number. | |
