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Definition

A characteristic is a distinguishing feature.[1]

Classification

Sub classes of characteristics are:

- physical characteristics (e.g. mechanical, electrical, chemical or biological characteristics);

- sensory characteristics (e.g. related to smell, touch, taste, sight, hearing);

- behavioural characteristics (e.g. courtesy, honesty, veracity);

- temporal characteristics (e.g. punctuality, reliability, availability, continuity);

- ergonomic characteristics (e.g. physiological characteristic, or related to human safety);

- functional characteristics (e.g. maximum speed of an car).

See also

Property


Notes

- A characteristic can be inherent or assigned.

- A characteristic can be qualitative or quantitative.

- A qualitative characteristic if often expressed an independentised adjective. For example the adjective is 'complete'and the characteristic is 'completeness'.

Relations

A characteristic is always associated with a thing.

A characteristics can have a value. For example the colour (characteristic) of the car is red (value).

Examples

Qualitative charcateristics

A

Ability to …| Accelartation | Acceptability | Accessibility | Accountability | Accuracy | Adaptability | Adaptivity| Added value | Adjustability | Affection | Affinity | Affordability | Aimed towards … | Analysability | Anointability | Anticipative capacity | Appealing | Applicability | Approachability | Appropriateness | Attainability | Attractiveness | Authenticity | Authority to … | Autonomy | Availability | Avoidability | Awareness.

B

Beauty

C

Capability | Carefulness | Changeability | Clarity | Clearness | Coherence | Cohesion | Collaboration-oriented | Comfort | Comparability | Compatibility | Competence | Competitiveness | Completeness | Complexity | Compliance with ... | Comprehensibility | Conceivability | Confidentiality | Congruity | Connection with … | Consistency | Containability | Continuity | Contradictability | Controllability | Coping ability | Correctness | Courage | Coverage | Creativity | Credibility | Creditworthiness | Customer focus | Customer-friendliness.

D

Decisiveness | Dedication | Demonstrability | Dependency | Depth | Desirability | Discretion | Disputability | Diversity | Divisibility | Downgradability | Duality | Dynamic

E

Ease. e.g., Ease of operation | Effectiveness | Efficiency | Employability | Energy | Enthusiasm | Environmental friendliness | Equality | Equivalence | Exchangeability | Exclusivity | Expandability | Explanatory power | Expressiveness

F

Fairness | Faithfulness Falsifiability | Familiarity | Fastidiousness | Faultlessness | Feasibility | Fertility | Findability | Fit in-capacity | Flawlessness | Flexibility | Freshness | Friendliness | Full-fledgedness | Functionality | Future-proofness/

H

Habitability | Hackability | Health | Helpfulness | Heterogeneousness | Homogeneity | Honesty | Human orientation

I

Identifiability | Immunity, e.g., to stress | Impartiality | Importance | Independency | Influentialness | Innovative capacity | Innovativeness | Installability | Integrity | Intensity | Interpretability | Inventiveness | Involvement

L

Lawfulness | Learnability | Learning capacity | Legality | Legitimacy | Level of | Linkability | Loyalty

M

Maintainability | Manageability | Manoeuvrability | Market orientation | Maturity | Measurability | Mobility | Modifiability | Modificational capacity | Motivational capacity | Multiformity |

N

Naturalness | Neatness | Necessity | Negotiability | Network competence

O

Objectivity | Obligingness | Openness | Operability | Operation | Operational safety

P

Perceptibility | Performance | Perseverance | Persuasiveness | Pertness | Planability | Plausibility | Policy relevance | Portability | Potential | Power | Precision | Predictability | Predictive power | Preparedness to … | Presence | Prevalence | Professionalism | Profitability | Progress | Promptness | Proportionality | Protectability | Punctuality | Purchasing power | Pureness | Purposiveness

R

Range | Rareness | Reaction time | Readability | Reasonableness | Recognisability | Recovery time | Redundancy | Relatability | Relevance | Reliability | Reliability | Reparability | Repeatability | Replaceability | Representativeness | Reproducibility | Resourcefulness | Response rate of time | Responsibility | Responsibility sense | Responsiveness | Reusability | Riskiness | Robustness |

S

Safety | Sanctionability | Satisfaction | Scope | Selectivity | Self-confidence | Self-insight | Sensitivity | Servitude | Shallowness | Sharpness | Shrewdness | Simplicity | Simultaneousness | Sincerity | Single-mindedness | Skilfulness | Speed | Sportsmanship | Stability | Steadiness | Straightforwardness | Strength | Structure | Subsidiarity | Sufficiency | Surveyability | Sustainability | Symmetry | Synergy level

T

Tenability | Tenaciousness | Tendency towards … | Testability | Thoroughness | Thoughtfulness | Timeliness | Topicality | Traceability | Transferability | Transitional rate | Transparency

U

Unavoidability | Uniformity | Uniqueness | Usability | Usefulness

V

Validity | Value | Value in use | Variance | Verifiability | Versatility | Visibility | Vitality | Voluntariness | Vulnerability

W

Well-foundedness | Wholeness | Willingness | Workability

Directly measurable attributes (primary quality) Acceleration Age Capacity Colour Cost-effectiveness Costs Delivery time Dimensions Duration Frequency Height Length Life span Output Periodicity Price Profit Quantity Reaction time Recovery time Response time Size Speed Turnover Volume Weight Width

References

  1. ISO 9000 (2015). Quality management systems – Fundamentals and vocabulary. Delft: Nederlands Normalisatie-instituut.