Crossword clues for characterization
characterization
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Characterization \Char`ac*ter*i*za"tion\, n. The act or process of characterizing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "marking out of a precise form;" see characterize + -ation. Meaning "description of essential features" is from 1814.
Wiktionary
n. The act or process of characterize.
WordNet
n. a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterisation]
the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd" [syn: characterisation]
acting the part of a character on stage; dramaticially representing the character by speech and action and gesture [syn: portrayal, enactment, personation]
Wikipedia
In mathematics, the statement that "Property P characterizes object X" means that not only does X have property P, but that X is the only thing that has property P. It is also common to find statements such as "Property Q characterises Y up to isomorphism". The first type of statement says in different words that the extension of P is a singleton set. The second says that the extension of Q is a single equivalence class (for isomorphism, in the given example — depending on how up to is being used, some other equivalence relation might be involved).
Characterization, when used in materials science, refers to the broad and general process by which a material's structure and properties are probed and measured. It is a fundamental process in the field of materials science, without which no scientific understanding of engineering materials could be ascertained. The scope of the term often differs; some definitions limit the term's use to techniques which study the microscopic structure and properties of materials, while others use the term to refer to any materials analysis process including macroscopic techniques such as mechanical testing, thermal analysis and density calculation. The scale of the structures observed in materials characterization ranges from angstroms, such as in the imaging of individual atoms and chemical bonds, up to centimeters, such as in the imaging of coarse grain structures in metals. While many characterization techniques have been practiced for centuries, such as basic optical microscopy, new techniques and methodologies are constantly emerging. In particular the advent of the electron microscope and Secondary ion mass spectrometry in the 20th century has revolutionized the field, allowing the imaging and analysis of structures and compositions on much smaller scales than was previously possible, leading to a huge increase in the level of understanding as to why different materials show different properties and behaviors. More recently, atomic force microscopy has further increased the maximum possible resolution for analysis of certain samples in the last 30 years.
Characterization or characterisation may refer to:
- Characterisation of a character in a narrative or dramatic work of art
- Characterization (bacteriology), a technique used to identify a bacterial species, study its features, strain properties and systematically name it according to International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria.
- Characterisation (conflict), a procedure to resolve a lawsuit
- Characterization (mathematics), a concept in mathematics
- Characterization (materials science), the use of external techniques to probe into the internal structure and properties of a material
Usage examples of "characterization".
And here, out of the wealth of knowledge conveyed by Rudolf Steiner from the realm of supersensible Imagination, it is his characterization of the four modifications of levity which will now give the guidance necessary for our own observation.
Getting to me, the essayist mentioned the fact that my style was clumsy, my dialog stilted, my characterization non-existent, but that there was no question that my books were -turners.
Andrew Deacon, who last summer pleased all hands by his robust characterization of Ethan Frome, is now winning as an English poet in hard luck, and the new leading lady, Miss Mahala Vale, is exquisite in the role of an Edna Millay in a dog-wagon.
It would be an apter characterization to say I had become infatuated, obsessed, had perhaps even fallen in love with Leonardo.
Consequently we find among the descriptions which Traherne gives of the mode of perception peculiar to man when the inner light, brought into this world at birth, is not yet absorbed by the physical eye, many helpful characterizations of the nature of Imaginative perception, some of which may be quoted here.
Everyone started calling out catch phrases and special events and characterizations of various seniors.
Almost everyone finds this characterization recognizable, and many feel that it describes them perfectly.
Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science.
This requires, first of all, a proper characterization of Point and Plane in themselves.
The characterization of Giuliani as a heartless brute vanished into thin air like the blather it always was.
The reporter's characterization of Craig and Allison's marriage made it sound much more volatile than it had in fact been.
The American detective novel tends to demand a little more characterization.
Or we can fall back upon our experience and strive for a synthesis-a form of science fiction which combines good storytelling with the technological sensitivity of the forties, the sociological concerns of the fifties, and the attention to better writing and improved characterization which came out of the sixties.
And Ted got Finley himself to supervise his dissertation, which compared Homer's two great antithetical female characterizations, Helen and Penelope.
At one time, only the best Gothic writers were published between hardcovers, those whose talent for characterization runs deep and who manage to stretch the formulized plot into moderately unique arrangements that give the genre more life and excitement than it usually has: Elizabeth Goudge, Victoria Holt, Daphne Du Maurier.