- typical of a particular person, place, or thing特有的, 独特的:
he began with a characteristic attack on extremism.
他一开始就对极端主义进行了独特的攻击。
1
- a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them特性, 特征, 特色。
2
- Mathematics the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number【数】首数。
派生词
characteristically
adverb词源
mid 17th cent.: from French caractéristique or medieval Latin characteristicus, from Greek kharaktēristikos, from kharaktēr 'a stamping tool'.