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character
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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.


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

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.

(character)character - An atom in a character repertoire.

Compare with glyph.


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com and up comes a grey home page with a white and grey graphic symbol, a quasi-rebus composed of the practice initials, with the full practice name in white below.
``There's no graphic symbol that says this is the San Fernando Valley,'' says Johnson, a retired commercial artist living in Granada Hills.
A second try would see the person's graphic symbol crumble.
 
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