Lexic.us

Definition of Characterisation

1. Noun. A graphic or vivid verbal description. "The pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"

2. Noun. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features. "The media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"

Definition of Characterisation

1. Noun. (alternative form of characterization) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Characterisation

character set character sets character theory character user interface character witness charactered characterful characterfully characterhood characteries

charactering characteriological characteriologically characterisability characterisable characterisation (current term) characterisations characterise characterised characterises

characterisic function characterising characterism characterisms characteristic characteristic X-ray characteristic curve characteristic emission characteristic function characteristic polynomial

Literary usage of Characterisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technical Digest edited by G. W. Day, D. L. Franzen, P. A. Williams (1999)
"... Real-Time characterisation of Fibre Grating Fabry-Perots and Phase-Shifted Gratings with 100kHz Resolution, submitted to Symposium on Optical Fiber ..."

2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"The art of dramatic characterisation, in which lies the chief and crowning greatness of Shakspere, was not inherited by him from his predecessors, ..."

3. Evaluation of Speciation Technology: Workshop Proceedings, Tokai-mura by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2001)
"The characterisation of such colloids is imperative and their quantification and characterisation is, therefore, included as a ..."

4. Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakespeare's Plays by Hermann Ulrici (1876)
"SHAKSPEARE'S MODE OF characterisation. SHAKSPEARE'S mode of characterisation is no less entirely the expression and organ of his idea ..."

5. The Fine Arts by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1891)
"The characterisation in Sculpture of the Types. The formation and the clear comprehension of the type was the work of Hellenic intelligence; ..."

6. A Handbook on Story Writing by Blanche Colton Williams (1917)
"... biography or possible biography^ inadequacy of incomplete knowledge; laws of characterisation in short-story same as those governing characterisation in ..."

7. Basic Studies in the Field of High-Temperature Engineering: Third by Nihon Genshiryoku Kenkyūjo, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"The above-mentioned experiences provide valuable information for constructing a device for in situ monitoring and characterisation of a material surface ..."

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