0 past simple and past participle of characterize
1 Something that characterizes another thing is typical of it:
To sum up, we have thus far established a sufficient condition for eradication to be optimal, and we have characterized the other possible qualitative solutions.
These differences, which are quantitative not qualitative, have not yet been adequately characterized for a variety of methodological reasons.
The philosophy of these homes is characterized by a very strong emphasis on training the staff.
This zone is characterized by evidence for a succession of events that, taken together, suggest a history of continuing, repeated strike-slip.
Nuclear reprogramming is characterized by functional modification of the transferred nucleus to direct normal embryo development.
Natural language is characterized by its fluid uncertain unstable nature: evolution is the normal process of language.
Stage 3 is characterized by the diffusion of the standard preverbal particle non along with the growing amount of verbal utterances.
Local relief is characterized by low altitude sedimentary plateaux (chapadas), which are broken by a network of peripheral or intermontane depressions.