The phrase "a central characteristic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a key feature or quality that is fundamental to something being discussed.
Example: "A central characteristic of effective leadership is the ability to communicate clearly and inspire others."
Alternatives: "a key feature" or "a fundamental trait".
A central characteristic of the buildings is glass.
This particular talent for metamorphosis is a central characteristic of all of the actors featured in this week's archive collection.
The contractual sharing of public responsibilities by all governments in the system appears to be a central characteristic of federalism.
Does Mr. Medvedev mean what he seems to say? Can he ease the grip on Russian political life that has been a central characteristic of Mr. Putin's rule?
For Mr. Hofstadter, a central characteristic of the paranoid style is the conviction that the nation faces a hostile and conspiratorial world and the absence of sensible judgments about how to respond to that threat.
And although both are American, the other composers were from Korea (by way of Germany), Estonia and Britain — globe-trotting being a central characteristic of Mr. Sachs's programming style.
Identity relevance involves finding personal meaning in the activities one is engaged in, typically because they relate to an enduring and central characteristic of a person's sense of who they are as an individual (Stryker and Burke, 2000).
For all this, however, a surprising number of legal theorists agree at least at an abstract level about one central characteristic of interpretation, namely that interpretation is a Janus-faced concept, encompassing both a backward-looking conserving component, and a forward-looking creative one.
Apart from a nuclear envelope, another central characteristic feature of most eukaryotes is that they possess mitochondria, the powerhouses of eukaryotic cells, which provide ATP via respiration.
The central characteristic of a construct is that its indicators co-vary with each other.
Such a hub-like structure is the central characteristic of scale free networks [ 16].
