English-Portuguese translations for characteristic

• característica
  Quais são as suas características principais?What are the main characteristics?
  São estas as três características. These are the three characteristics.
  O mar Báltico é um mar com características muito particulares. The Baltic Sea has its own characteristics.
• característico
  O biocombustível é outro exemplo característico. Biofuel is another characteristic example.
  Destaquei três pontos particularmente característicos. I have identified three particularly characteristic points.
  Tenho a dizer que isso é típico e característico deste Governo. I would like to say how typical and characteristic that is for this government.
• caraterística

Definition of characteristic

• Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing
• A distinguishing feature of a person or thing
• The integer part of a logarithm
• The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc

Examples

• The para-communist doctrine of antiwhiteness reflects the defining characteristics of communist ideology — deceit, malice, and struggle
• The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number

Related words

• characterisation
• characterization
• characterize
• characterise
• characteristics
• characterizing
• characteristically
• uncharacteristic
• characteriological