Appearance vs Characteristic - What's the difference?
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The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
Personal presence; look; aspect; mien.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others.
* Bible, (w) ix. 15
* Bible, 1 (w) xvi. 7
* Bible, (w) vii. 24
The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(legal) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.
(medical) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
* , chapter=12
, title= a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
(mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
(nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
(algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
As nouns the difference between appearance and characteristic
is that appearance is the act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye while characteristic is a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.As an adjective characteristic is
being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.appearance
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Alternative forms
* appearaunceNoun
(en noun)- And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire.
- For man looketh on the outward appearance .
- Judge not according to the appearance .
- Will he now retire, After appearance , and again prolong Our expectation?
Synonyms
* (act of coming into sight) arrival, manifestation, * (a thing seen) spectacle, apparition, phenomenon, presence * (aspect of a person) aspect, air, figure, look, manner, mien * (outward show) semblance, show, pretense, or facade * (act of appearing in public) debutDerived terms
() * court appearance * disappearance * keep up appearances * nonappearance * plate appearance * put in an appearance * reappearance * save appearancesReferences
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*characteristic
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(wikipedia characteristic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typicalAntonyms
* uncharacteristic * untypicalDerived terms
* characteristic function * characteristicnessNoun
(en noun)- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.