What is "characterized"

Usage examples of "characterized".

The plant, too, is characterized by a threefold structure, root, stem with leaves, and florescence, which in their way represent the three alchemical functions.

South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers, a family of monkeys, the llama, peccari, tapir, opossums, and, especially, several genera of Edentata, the order which includes the sloths, ant-eaters, and armadilloes.

And so I did, and the hotel's Olde New England kitsch had charmed the socks off the foreign scholars, who found it a refreshing change from the modern university locales that had characterized most of the other Congresses.

They can be characterized as a run-of-the-mill lynch mob — and aside from blocking our escape down that road, they offer a very minor threat to our safety.

There was none of the spaciousness and calm that had characterized the SDF-1 bridge.

The terrain was arid and rugged, characterized by buttes and tors and mesas similar to those around Norristown but softened by small skyblue lakes and patches of hardwood forest.

Nor is there any condition of movement which could be rightly characterized by the attributes 'uniform' and 'straight line' in the sense of Newton's first law.

We know also that this last state is characterized by a high degree of expansiveness, which is also the outstanding property of heat.

Contrary to this, Air, as the second highest element in the old sense, is characterized by the pure quality, warm.

Every point in space, both inside and outside the earth, is characterized by a definite intensity of this field, the so-called gravitational potential.

Read as a letter in nature's script, this fact tells us that precious stones with their flame-like colours are characterized by having kept something of the nature that was theirs before they coalesced into ponderable existence.

Both fields are characterized by an interaction between gravity and levity, this interaction being of opposite nature in each of them.

No point in it can be characterized as having any distance, whether finite or infinite, from us.

In fact, white exists visibly for the eye as part of the manifested world, and is therefore properly characterized as a colour.

For whenever a muscle is caused to alter its length, it will perform some kind of vibration - a vibration characterized even by a definite pitch, which differs in different people.