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characterA 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. 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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Tight and fittingly characterful, Chalifour's playing was exactly what was needed to conjure the mysterious East. Complete with tapering brick barrel vaults, brick walls, and brick niches, they sought to reapply the tectonic eloquence that had made the material assembly and formal intensity of Lewerentz's characterful spaces virtually inseparable. Bach's magnum pedagogical opus--a goldmine of contrapuntal wizardry, keyboard challenges and characterful music. |
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