CHARACTERISTIC CURVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does characteristic curve mean? 

• CHARACTERISTIC CURVE (noun)
  The noun CHARACTERISTIC CURVE has 1 sense:

1. (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters

  Familiarity information: CHARACTERISTIC CURVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARACTERISTIC CURVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

characterisic function; characteristic curve

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)