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CHARACTERISTIC CURVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters
Synonyms:
characterisic function; characteristic curve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("characteristic curve" is a kind of...):
graph; graphical record; graphical recording (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)
Domain category:
electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "characteristic curve"):
frequency-response characteristic; frequency-response curve ((electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency)
