What is style?

Style, in my mind, is a distinctive characteristic of anything; and by anything I mean, a person, place, way of life, object, really anything. It's the special characteristic that sets something apart from any other thing, like the Greek buildings and sculptures, which set them apart from all other societies and forms of buildings. Music is also another good example of style. There are many different forms of style in music, even sub styles of the same type of music, i.e. techno, industrial techno, trance techno, Japanese techno and so on and so forth. All things have style and style is the defining characteristic of all things.