A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character.

The smallest component of a written language which has semantic value. A character is the abstract idea of the letter, numeral, symbol, etc.; a glyph is the specific shape, the form that you see on the page, screen, etc.

(1) A letter, digit, or other symbol that is used to represent data. (2) A sequence of one or more bytes representing a single graphic symbol or control code. This term corresponds to the ISO C standard term multibyte character, where a single-byte character is a special case of the multibyte character. Unlike the usage in the ISO C standard, character here has no necessary relationship with storage space, and byte is used when storage space is discussed. X/Open, . See multibyte character.

One of the persons of a drama or novel.

Any person or entity portrayed in a dramatic activity.

Essentially, any person in a story who does or says something. It's the addition of unique and meaningful details that elevates a character beyond purely functional status.

a participant, usually a person, in a story. A character may be the whole focus of a literary piece, or a mere detail added to create depth to a small scene, for example. In Melville's novel Moby Dick, for example, Captain Ahab, Queequeg, and Starbuck are all characters. Some might even consider the whale (Moby Dick) to be a character.

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.

The combination of a wine's features that make it distinguishable. A term of praise.

A description when the wine is perceived as being solid and having substance.

A wine's distinctive personality that stems from a combination of a region's wine-making traditions, soil, and grape varieties.

a) [ISO] A member of a set of elements used for organisation control or representation of data. A character can be a graphic character or a control character. b) Common term for glyph used in writing languages.

An abstract notion denoting a class of shapes declared to have the same meaning or form.

the smallest component of written language that has semantic value; refers to the abstract meaning and/or shape, rather than a specific shape ( see also glyph), though in code tables some form of visual representation is essential for the reader's understanding; the basic unit of encoding for the Unicode character encoding. glyph Unicode game : chess

a collection of representations with associative and predictive power

The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition.

A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Cæsar is a great historical character.

To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.

Trait or characteristic of an organismâ€(tm)s anatomy distinctive enough to use for classification, such as in cladistics.

Loosely, the general quality of a tea. More specifically, the quality of aroma and flavor that can be associated with country, region, district, or even garden of origin.

A desirable quality in the liquor of a tea, describing the flavour of the tea, permitting recognition of its country of origin.

An intangible quality in a tea that identifies its origin of growth.

a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"

Persona in the game. More often than not played by a player. For example if you played a fighter called Ooer, Ooer is the character and you are the player.

Someone who exists in the game world, but probably not in reality(tm).

A player's in game persona. If they are acting on their own impulses they're known as PCs (Player Characters, SEE ALSO PC). If Plot has given them direction they're known as NPCs (Non Player Characters, SEE ALSO NPC).

someone played by a player or the gamemaster in an RPG. a generic term that includes player character and non-player character differentiated from player and gamemaster

The imaginary person that the actor pretends to be on stage.

A character is created by an actor onstage, drawing upon the script created by the playwright. Characters are the agents of the stage action - they come to life at the beginning of the play, and cease to exist at the end.

A "person" in a play, as performed by an actor. Hamlet, Oedipus, Juliet, and Willy Loman are characters. Characters may or may not be based on real people.

an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"

In classification, any feature or attribute that can be measured, counted, described or otherwise assessed.

a feature that can be measured, counted, described, or otherwise expressed

A feature of an animal that can be described, measured, and communicated between scientists.

a feature that can be inherited

Any heritable attribute of organisms that varies among terminal taxa, and so is useful for phylogenetic reconstruction.

Some attribute of individuals within a species for which various heritable differences can be defined.

A variable or characteristic measured or observed for a block of taxa. It could be from molecular data ("Nucleotide at position 367 of the 18S gene"), or it could be phenotypic ("length of wing"). Characters in Mesquite typically exist only within character matrices.

A heritable feature (e.g. tooth shape or DNA sequence) of a group of organisms that exists in multiple forms.

Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.

The degree to which a borrower feels a moral obligation to pay his/her debts, measured by the credit and payment history.

The degree to which a potential borrower feels a moral obligation to repay debts as evidenced by the borower's credit and payment history. One of the "Five Cs" used in a lending officer's determination of a particular loan applicant's credit-worthiness.