Characteristic+property

  • 11characteristic — [adj] typical; distinguishing appropriate, diagnostic, differentiating, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic, especial, essential, exclusive, fixed, idiosyncratic, inborn, inbred, indicative, individual,… …

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  • 12property — [präp′ər tē] n. pl. properties [ME proprete < OFr proprieté < L proprietas < proprius, one s own] 1. a) the right to possess, use, and dispose of something; ownership [property in land] b) something, as a piece of writing, in which… …

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  • 13property — [n1] possessions, real estate acreage, acres, assets, belongings, buildings, capital, chattels, claim, dominion, effects, equity, estate, farm, freehold, goods, holdings, home, house, inheritance, land, means, ownership, plot, possessorship,… …

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  • 14Characteristic — Char ac*ter*is tic, n. 1. A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized. Pope. [1913 Webster] The characteristics of a true critic. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. (Math.) The integral part (whether… …

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  • 15property — ► NOUN (pl. properties) 1) a thing or things belonging to someone. 2) a building and the land belonging to it. 3) Law the right to the possession, use, or disposal of something; ownership. 4) a characteristic: a perfumed oil with calming… …

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  • 16property law — Introduction       principles, policies, and rules by which disputes over property are to be resolved and by which property transactions may be structured. What distinguishes property law from other kinds of law is that property law deals with… …

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  • 17property — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. quality, characteristic; ownership; possession, real estate, land; (pl.) props, stage settings, stage furniture. See drama, qualification. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Possession] Syn. belongings, lands,… …

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  • 18Property (philosophy) — Determinate redirects here. For the biology term, see Determinate growth. In logic, modern philosophy, and mathematics a property is an attribute of an object; a red object is said to have the property of redness. The property may be considered a …

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  • 19property — prop|er|ty W1S2 [ˈprɔpəti US ˈpra:pər ] n plural properties [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: propreté, from Latin proprietas, from proprius; PROPER] 1.) [U] the thing or things that someone owns ▪ The hotel is not responsible for any loss… …

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  • 20Characteristic subgroup — In mathematics, particularly in the area of abstract algebra known as group theory, a characteristic subgroup is a subgroup that is invariant under all automorphisms of the parent group.[1][2] Because conjugation is an automorphism, every… …

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