WordNet
characteristic curve
n. (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters [syn: characterisic function]
Wikipedia
Characteristic curve
Characteristic curve may refer to:
- In electronics, a current-voltage characteristic curve
- Semiconductor curve tracer, a device for displaying the above curve
- In photography, a plot of film density: see sensitometry
- In mathematics, used in the method of characteristics for solving partial differential equations