Character

Character

An atomic unit of content for text data. A character is an abstract entity without any particular appearance; characters include letters, digits, punctuation, and symbols. Compare character code, glyph.

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Industry/Domain: Software; Computer
Category: Operating systems
Company: Apple
Product: Mac OS X
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Natural environment; Coral reefs

In taxonomy, any attribute of organisms used for recognizing, differentiating or classifying taxa.

character

Archaeology; Evolution

Any recognizable trait, feature, or property of an organism. In phylogenetic studies, a character is a feature that is thought to vary independantly of other features, and to be ...

character

Computer; Software; Software engineering

A letter, digit, or other symbol that is used to represent information.

character

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. One of the symbols in a code. 2. In computer operations, a digit, letter, or symbol used alone or in some combination to express information, data, or instructions.

character

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A distinctive feature of an organism.

highlight

Software; Operating systems

To emphasize displayed characters, as by displaying them in reverse video (light on dark rather than dark on light, and vice versa) or against a colored background.

active

Software; Operating systems

Pertaining to the device, program, file, record or portion of the screen that is currently operational or subject to command operations.

cross hatch

Software; Operating systems

Shading made up of regularly spaced, intersecting lines.

default gateway

Software; Operating systems

A configuration item for the TCP/IP protocol that is the IP address of a directly reachable IP router. Configuring a default gateway creates a default route in the IP routing ...

compile

Software; Operating systems

To translate all the source code of a program from a high-level language into object code prior to execution of the program.

header row

Software; Operating systems

The first row in a spreadsheet. The header row contains category labels that describe the contents of the columns.

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Copper

A red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29. A ductile metal, it is a very good conductor of heat and electricity and is used esp. for ...