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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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precocious puberty due to premature hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal maturation; it is always isosexual and involves not only development of secondary sex characters but also development of the gonads. a condition marked by adiposity of the feminine type, genital hypoplasia, changes in secondary sex characters, and metabolic disturbances; seen with lesions of the hypothalamus. a condition marked by adiposity of the feminine type, genital hypoplasia, changes in secondary sex characters, and metabolic disturbances; seen with lesions of the hypothalamus. |
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