The phrase "and it characterizes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain how something defines or describes a particular quality or feature of a subject.
Example: "The novel is set in a dystopian future, and it characterizes the struggle for freedom against oppressive regimes."
Alternatives: "and it defines" or "and it describes".
C-SPAN has been described by media observers as a "window into the world of Washington politics" and it characterizes its own mission as being "to provide public access to the political process".
The second section runs from stanzas nine through seventeen, and it characterizes the song that the heavenly choir sings at the moment of the Nativity.
The presentation characterizes the material and immaterial attributes of biobanks as knowledge resources, and it characterizes the broader questions that they pose as resource governance questions rather than as questions solely of law or of public policy.
Figure 1 depicts the CSF curve obtained with Equation 1, and it characterizes luminance sensitivity as a function of normalized spatial frequency (CSF=1/Contrast threshold).
It measures the loss rate as seen by transport protocols, and it characterizes both the correctness and efficiency of ad hoc routing protocols.
At individual video sequence level, it encodes how frequently each visual element occurs in a video, and it characterizes and summarizes the video's content.
It links the reviews to concerns about China's digital security vulnerabilities and what it characterizes as a technology gap between China and countries like the United States, Russia, Israel, Britain and Germany.
The kids are willy-nilly mixing stuff together, but then you have to take that material and optimize it, characterize it, and do all the things chemists do".
Conductivity is the reciprocal of resistivity, and it, too, characterizes materials on the basis of how well electric current flows in them.
Dualism stands among the defining characteristics of apocalypticism, and it also characterizes Trumpian rhetoric.
During the night, the watch monitors your sleep patterns using a built-in accelerometer to tell when you're tossing and turning, which it characterizes as lighter sleep.
