| construction | drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem, the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem |
construction
building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
| road construction | the construction of roads |
| construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
structure
construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
| characteristic | a distinguishing quality |
| characteristic device characteristic | any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions |
sex characteristic
sexual characteristic
sex character | those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other |
primary sex characteristic
primary sexual characteristic
primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
secondary sex characteristic
secondary sexual characteristic
secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
construction
mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
feature
characteristic | a prominent attribute or aspect of something, the map showed roads and other features, generosity is one of his best characteristics |
peculiarity
distinctive feature
distinguishing characteristic | an odd or unusual characteristic |
eigenvalue
eigenvalue of a matrix
eigenvalue of a square matrix
characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
construction grammatical construction
expression | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit, I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner |
| characteristic | the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the characteristic is |
frequencyesponse curve
frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
characteristic curve
characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
construction
twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
construction worker
hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
| construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
| characteristic | typical or distinctive, heard my friend's characteristic laugh, red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn, stripes characteristic of the zebra |