characteristically

adjective

1. Also char·ac·ter·is·ti·cal. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.

noun

2. a distinguishing feature or quality: Generosity is his chief characteristic.
3. Mathematics.
   1. the integral part of a common logarithm.Compare mantissa.
   2. the exponent of 10 in a number expressed in scientific notation.
   3. the smallest positive integer n such that each element of a given ring added to itself n times results in 0.

noun

1. a distinguishing quality, attribute, or trait
2. maths
   1. the integral part of a common logarithm, indicating the order of magnitude of the associated numberthe characteristic of 2.4771 is 2 Compare mantissa
   2. another name for exponent, used esp in number representation in computing

adjective

3. indicative of a distinctive quality, etc; typical

n.

1. A distinguishing feature or attribute; character.
2. A structure or function determined by a gene or genes; trait.

1. The part of a logarithm to the base 10 that is to the left of the decimal point. For example, if 2.749 is a logarithm, 2 is the characteristic. Compare mantissa.