Characteristic in a sentence

It was just something that, if I asked, they told me about, but it was not a defining characteristic to the people who didn’t want it to be a defining characteristic.

A statistic is a numerical characteristic of a sample that can be used as an estimate of the corresponding parameter, the numerical characteristic of the population from which the sample was drawn.

Certain rot-producing fungi impart to wood characteristic colors which thus become symptomatic of weakness; however an attractive effect known as spalting produced by this process is often considered a desirable characteristic.

Da Capo Press. 1994. pg 1-2 Syncopated rhythm is a common characteristic in jazz music that was adapted to jazz dance in the early twentieth century and has remained a significant characteristic.

Either flat weighting or some other specific amplitude frequency characteristic or noise weighting characteristic must be associated with the measurement.

If n is the smallest positive integer such that this occurs, then n is called the characteristic of R. In some rings, is never zero for any positive integer n, and those rings are said to have characteristic zero.

In a field of characteristic 2, an element has either one square root, because each element is its own additive inverse, or does not have any at all (if the field is finite of characteristic 2 then every element has a unique square root).

Lactose a disacchararide characteristic of milk, and the only carbohydrate with a beta attachement (characteristic of cellulose) for which humans ever have an enzyme which can break the bond.

Nicknames can be a descriptor of a physical characteristic, or the opposite of a physical characteristic.

Personality Nicknames can be a descriptor of a personality characteristic, or the opposite of a personality characteristic.

Some algorithms are useful only when the characteristic data are molecular (DNA, RNA); other algorithms are useful only when the characteristic data are morphological.

The center of a group is always a strictly characteristic subgroup, but it is not always fully characteristic.

The heat transfer characteristic of epoxy tooling is fair; the heat transfer characteristic of metal-filled and metal-coated epoxy is good.

The transmission speed is a characteristic of the teleprinter while the shift (the difference between the tones representing mark and space) is a characteristic of the modem.

A characteristic specialty of the countries of the Indian subcontinent is the so-called Bharta, a dish made of roasted eggplant pulp, enriched with garlic, spices, and aromatic herbs.

After the characteristic series of charges, the snorting Etzebeth would not be stopped.

A habit of straight talking is often regarded as characteristic too.

And that’s certainly not a defining characteristic of Oakville council, where yes-men (and women) appear to live long and happy political lives.

As the nebula throws off its outer layers of ionized gas, it reveals its characteristic blue interior, composed of hydrogen and oxygen that have not yet been expelled off by the nebula’s stellar wind.

But Rooster isn't the only stingy sign, with Rat, Tiger and Snake also sharing this negative characteristic.