0 past simple and past participle of characterize --
1 Something that characterizes another thing is typical of it: --
In fact the dramatic transformation of macroeconomics during the past decade has reflected the adoption of more scientific methodology than had previously characterized the field.
As predicted, large urban schools serving many economically disadvantaged children were characterized by a preponderance of classrooms with high rates of student aggression.
Section 4 presents an approach for update programs characterized by its simplicity.
The third-person-singular present tense in this dialect is characterized by a -zero marker, which is in variation with the standard -s marker.
Such procedures rest on a somewhat more static view of a period that is typically characterized by heterogeneity and flux.
The intervening interval was characterized by stillstand or possibly slow transgression.
Thus, the families in the sample are characterized by poverty, relatively large family size, and frequent unstable marriages.
Local relief is characterized by low altitude sedimentary plateaux (chapadas), which are broken by a network of peripheral or intermontane depressions.
