caracteritzats

Caracteritzats is a Catalan past participle form meaning characterized. It is the masculine plural form of the past participle of the verb caracteritzar.

In Catalan, it mainly functions as an adjective to describe subjects that have been characterized, but it can also be used in technical writing as a nominal expression referring to items that have undergone a characterization process.

For example: "elements caracteritzats per X" translates to "elements characterized by X." In English, one would more commonly use "characterized features" or "characterized samples" rather than the participle form itself.

Distinctions: "característiques" is the standard noun for "characteristics"; "caracteritzats" conveys the state of having been characterized, not the features themselves. The masculine plural is "caracteritzats"; masculine singular "caracteritzat"; feminine singular "caracteritzada"; feminine plural "caracteritzades."

Context and usage: In Catalan technical writing, "caracteritzats" signals that a set of items has been defined or described by specific features. It often appears in analyses, datasets, and reports where a prior characterization step has produced results that describe or distinguish elements. When translating to English, it is typically better to render the sense with "characterized" or "characterized features" rather than attempting a direct loan of the participle form.

See also: caracteritzar, característiques, caracterització.