Characteristic function

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A function which is equal to 1 for all points in its domain which belong to a given set, and is equal to 0 for all points in the domain which do not belong to that given set.
  2. 2
    (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters wordnet
  3. 3
    A complex function completely defining the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable