caractérisés

Caractérisés is the masculine plural past participle of the French verb caractériser, and it also functions as the masculine plural form of the adjective caractérisé. The verb caractériser means to describe or define the distinguishing features of something, to identify its characteristics.

The term derives from caractère, from Latin character, and shares its roots with related words in other Romance languages. As a participle, caractérisés appears in compound tenses (for example, ils ont été caractérisés) and agrees with the subject. As an adjective, it can describe masculine plural nouns (des profils caractérisés par leur composition chimique). The feminine forms are caractérisée (singular), caractéristiques (plural feminine), and caractérisées (plural feminine).

In usage, caractérisés is common in scientific, technical, and analytic writing, where objects, samples, or populations are described by their attributes. The noun form caractérisation (or caractérisation) refers to the process or result of characterizing. See also caractérisation, caractère, caractéristique.

Examples: «Les échantillons ont été caractérisés par spectroscopie.» «Des profils caractérisés par leur composition chimique ont été comparés.»