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Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

(nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).

(ring theory) For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number ''n'' such that ''n'' instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.