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Characteristic , char·ac·ter·is·tic / ˌkariktəˈristik/ • adj. typical of a particular person, place, or thing: large farms are characteristic of this area. • n. 1. a… Character Set , character set
1. The set of characters that is handled by a specified machine or allowed by a given programming language or protocol. The set usually… Character , In the world of the early Republic, every man active in politics worried obsessively about his "character," although not in the sense in which one wo… trait , trait •affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betr… secondary sexual character , secondary sexual character A characteristic of animals that differs between the two sexes, but excluding the gonads and the ducts and associated glan… Acquired Characteristics , acquired characteristics Characteristics that are acquired by an organism during its lifetime, according to early evolutionary theorists (e.g. Lamarc…
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