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characteristically
Variant of characteristic
adjective
of or constituting the special character; typical; distinctive: the characteristic odor of cabbage
noun
- a distinguishing trait, feature, or quality; peculiarity
- the whole number, or integral part, of a logarithm, as distinguished from the mantissa: 4 is the characteristic of the logarithm 4.7193
Related Forms:
- characteristically adverb
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