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characteristic meaning in Sanskrit

वैशेषिक vaiśeṣika

UK/ˌkæɹəktəˈɹɪstɪk//ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/

characteristic in Sanskrit: वैशेषिक (vaiśeṣika). In English, characteristic means indicating a distinguishing feature of a person or thing; typical.

Sanskrit words for characteristic

characteristic, special
वैशेषिक vaiśeṣika

English meaning of characteristic

  1. adjective Indicating a distinguishing feature of a person or thing; typical.
  2. adjective Describing or pertaining to personal characters or character types; characterful.
  3. noun A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.
  4. noun The integer part of a logarithm.

Full definition of characteristic

characteristic in a sentence

  • The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number.

Synonyms of characteristic

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Questions about characteristic in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of characteristic in Sanskrit?
Characteristic in Sanskrit is वैशेषिक (vaiśeṣika).
characteristic इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Characteristic: वैशेषिक (vaiśeṣika).
What does characteristic mean in English?
Characteristic means indicating a distinguishing feature of a person or thing; typical.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “characteristic”: वैशेषिक. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: characteristic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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