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CHARACTERIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
Synonyms:
characterization; enactment; personation; portrayal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("characterization" is a kind of...):
acting; performing; playacting; playing (the performance of a part or role in a drama)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "characterization"):
impression (an impressionistic portrayal of a person)
character; part; persona; role; theatrical role (an actor's portrayal of someone in a play)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Example:
the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd
Synonyms:
characterisation; characterization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("characterization" is a kind of...):
description (the act of describing something)
Derivation:
characterize (describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A graphic or vivid verbal description
Example:
the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters
Synonyms:
characterisation; characterization; delineation; depiction; picture; word-painting; word picture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("characterization" is a kind of...):
description; verbal description (a statement that represents something in words)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "characterization"):
epithet (descriptive word or phrase)
portrait; portraiture; portrayal (a word picture of a person's appearance and character)
Context examples:
A characterization of the relationship of an medical history conclusion point in time to a reference point in time.
(Medical History End Relative to Reference Period, NCI Thesaurus)
A descriptive characterization of the size of the left cardiac ventricle.
(Left Ventricle Size, Qualitative, NCI Thesaurus)
Current research focuses primarily on the discovery and characterization of prostate cancer susceptibility genes.
(International Consortium on Prostate Cancer Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)
This includes observations, test results, history and other concepts relevant to the characterization of human pathologic conditions.
(Disease, Disorder or Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
It may represent a numeric quantity, a textual characterization, a date or time measurement, or some other state, depending on the nature of the attribute.
(Data Value, NCI Thesaurus)
The Animal Models Service Shared Resource is primarily dedicated to the production, development and characterization of biomedical relevant animal models and species for cancer research including transgenic, knockout, mutant, etc. experimental animal lines.
(Animal Models Service Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Through the Cancer Molecular Analysis Project (CMAP), NCI facilitates the identification and evaluation of molecular targets by integrating comprehensive molecular characterizations of cancer and making the data and infrastructure publicly accessible.
(Cancer Molecular Analysis Project, NCI Thesaurus)
A characterization of the relationship of an adverse event conclusion point in time to a reference point in time.
(Adverse Event End Relative to Reference Period, NCI Thesaurus)
NSF's Division of Materials Research supports discovery, synthesis and characterization of new types of materials, and studies to understand their crystal structures, chemical bonding and physical properties. said program director Birgit Schwenzer.
(Chemists find path to 'new blue' in meteorite minerals, National Science Foundation)
A characterization of the extent of any localized or abnormal change in the structure of part of an organ or tissue.
(Performed Lesion Description, NCI Thesaurus)
