Characteristic
Definition
A characteristic is a distinguishing feature of a thing.[1]
Subordinate concepts
A
Subordinate concepts of the concept 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).
B
Subordinate concepts of the concept characteristics are:
- qualitative characteristics (e.g., clarity)
- quantitative characteristics (e.g., length)
C
Subordinate concepts of the concept characteristics are:
- inherent characteristics (e.g., accuracy)
- assigned characteristic (e.g., price)
See also
Notes
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 combination of a characteristic and a thing is a focus area. For example the accuracy (characteristic) of data (thing).
A characteristics can have a value. For example the colour (characteristic) of the car is red (value).
Examples
Examples of characteristics are: [2]
Qualitative charcateristics
A
Ability to …| 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 | Cost-effectiveness | 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., of operation | Effectiveness | Efficiency | Employability | Energy | Enthousiasme | 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 | Operational safety
P
Perceptibility | Performance | Perseverance | Persuasiveness | Pertness | Planability | Plausibility | Policy relevance | Portability | Potential | Power to... | Precision | Predictability | Predictive power | Preparedness to … | Presence | Prevalence | Professionalism | Profitability | Progress | Promptness | Proportionality | Protectability | Punctuality | Purchasing power | Pureness | Purposiveness
R
Range | Rareness | Readability | Reasonableness | Recognisability | Redundancy | Relatability | Relevance | Reliability | Reparability | Repeatability | Replaceability | Representativeness | Reproducibility | Resourcefulness | 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
Qualitative charcateristics
Acceleration | Age | Capacity | Colour | Costs | Delivery time | Duration | Frequency | Height | Length | Life span | Periodicity | Price | Quantity | Reaction time | Recovery time | Response time | Size | Speed | Turnover | Volume | Weight | Width | and all other fysical quantities