The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PARAMETER which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2020.
Defining characteristic crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PARAMETER | 50 % | 9 |
| HALLMARK | 50 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Defining characteristic
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- namespace
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- visibility
Crossword Answer definitions
PARAMETER noun- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- A variable that describes some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof
- An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).
- An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
- The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result PARAMETER
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