Characteristic vs. Specification — What's the Difference?

Typical of a particular person, place, or thing

The act of specifying.

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

Specifications A detailed, exact statement of particulars, especially a statement prescribing materials, dimensions, and quality of work for something to be built, installed, or manufactured.

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

A single item or article that has been specified.

Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive

An exact written description of an invention by an applicant for a patent.

A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.

An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

(Mathematics) The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa

An act of specifying.

(Mathematics) The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulo 12 have a characteristic of 12.

The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer.

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

A detailed listing or description of the required properties of some object proposed to be built or bought; - usually used in the plural; as, the building specifications require that it withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8; the program specifications require an option to change the menus.

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

A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work

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.

Naming explicitly

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

(patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and usse of an invention

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

A restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement

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

A prominent aspect of something;

A distinguishing quality

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

Any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions

Typical or distinctive;