Y vs Characteristic - What's the difference?
y | characteristic |
The twenty-fifth letter of the .
Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
close front rounded vowel
Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
Image:Latin Y.png, Capital and lowercase versions of Y , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter Y.png, Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur
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Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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(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 a letter y
is the letter y with a (l) above itself.As an adjective characteristic is
being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.As a noun characteristic is
a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.y
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=x, next=z, image= (wikipedia y)Letter
See also
(Latn-script)Symbol
(Close front rounded vowel) (head)See also
{{Letter , page=Y , NATO=Yankee , Morse=–·–– , Character=Y , Braille=? }}characteristic
English
(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.
