character

character

A single alphabetic letter, numeric digit, or special symbol such as a decimal point or comma. A character is equivalent to a byte; for example, 50,000 characters take up 50,000 bytes. The word "character" itself takes up nine bytes. See character based.

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character

1. a person represented in a play, film, story, etc.; role

2. Computing any letter, numeral, etc., which is a unit of information and can be represented uniquely by a binary pattern

3. Genetics any structure, function, attribute, etc., in an organism, which may or may not be determined by a gene or group of genes

4. a short prose sketch of a distinctive type of person, usually representing a vice or virtue

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character [′kar·ik·tər]

(computer science)

An elementary mark used to represent data, usually in the form of a graphic spatial arrangement of connected or adjacent strokes, such as a letter or a digit.

A small collection of adjacent bits used to represent a piece of data, addressed and handled as a unit, often corresponding to a digit or letter.

(geophysics)

A distinctive aspect of a seismic event, for example, the waveform.

(psychology)

The sum of a person's relatively fixed personality traits and habitual modes of response.

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(character)

character - An atom in a character repertoire. Compare with glyph.