Feature vs. Characteristic

Featurenoun

(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

Featurenoun

An important or main item.

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(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

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Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

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(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

Featurenoun

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

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(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

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(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

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An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.

Featurenoun

(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.

Featurenoun

(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

Featureverb

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

Featureverb

(transitive) To star, to contain.

Featureverb

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

Featureverb

To have features resembling.

Featurenoun

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

Featurenoun

The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.

Featurenoun

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

Featurenoun

A form; a shape.

Featurenoun

a prominent aspect of something;

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the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;

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the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;

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a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;

Featurenoun

an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

Featureverb

have as a feature;

Featureverb

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;

Characteristicadjective

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

Characteristicnoun

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

Characteristicnoun

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

Characteristicnoun

(nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).

Characteristicnoun

For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.

Characteristicadjective

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.

Characteristicnoun

A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.

Characteristicnoun

The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

Characteristicnoun

a prominent aspect of something;

Characteristicnoun

a distinguishing quality

Characteristicnoun

the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

Characteristicnoun

any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions

Characteristicadjective

typical or distinctive;

Characteristicadjective

typical of a particular person, place, or thing

Characteristicnoun

a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them

Characteristicnoun

the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.