characteristic

英语

词源

源自古希臘語 χαρακτηριστικός (kharaktēristikós)，χαρακτηρίζω (kharaktērízō, “按特征标记”)，χαρακτήρ（kharaktḗr, “记号，符号”）。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌkæɹəktəˈɹɪstɪk/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌkɛɹəktəˈɹɪstɪk/

• 音頻 (加利福尼亞)：

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• 韻部：-ɪstɪk
• 斷字：char‧ac‧te‧ris‧tic

形容词

characteristic (比較級 more characteristic，最高級 most characteristic)

1. （事物或人）特有的，独特的，特性的
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp：“All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.”

同义词

• distinctive
• exclusive
• idiosyncratic
• indicative
• representative
• signature
• specific
• typical

反义词

• uncharacteristic
• untypical

派生词

• characteristic function
• characteristicness
• characteristic polynomial
• characteristic root
• characteristic time
• characteristic vector

 

名詞

characteristic (複數 characteristics)

1. （人或事物的）显著特征。
2. (數學) 对数的整数部分，首数。
3. (航海) 灯塔的导航灯的特征（如颜色、闪烁、图案的不同）。
4. (代數，場論，環論) 为了得到该场的零点，必须增加场的单位的最小次数。如果该最小自然数不存在，则（该整数）为零。
   • A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.

同义词

• (distinguishing feature of a person or thing)： attribute, hallmark, idiosyncrasy, mannerism, quality, tendency, trademark, trait

派生词

• acquired characteristic
• defining characteristic
• demand characteristic
• Euler characteristic
• light characteristic
• secondary sex characteristic

 

相关词汇

• characteristically

參見

• mantissa

延伸閲讀

• “characteristic”，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302
• “characteristic”，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587