"character" značenje u engleski leksikon

1. Capable of portraying an unusual or eccentric personality often markedly different from the player
2. Requiring the qualities of a character actor

Množina: characters

A letter, digit or other symbol that is used as the representation of data. A connected sequence of characters is called a character string.
A letter, number, punctuation mark, or other symbol or control code that is represented to a computer by one unit—1 byte—of information. A character is not necessarily visible, either on the screen or on paper; a space, for example, is as much a character as is the letter a or any of the digits 0 through 9. Because computers must manage not only so-called printable characters but also the look (formatting) and transfer of electronically stored information, a character can additionally indicate a carriage return or a paragraph mark in a word-processed document. It can be a signal to sound a beep, begin a new page, or mark the end of a file. See also ASCII, control character, EBCDIC.

Množina: characters

ETYM Latin, an instrument for marking, character, Greek, from charassein to make sharp, to cut into furrows, to engrave: cf. French caractère.
1. A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); SYN. eccentric, type, case.
2. Personality.
3. Good repute.
4. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; SYN. fiber, fibre.
5. An actor's portrayal of someone in a play; SYN. role, theatrical role, part, persona.
6. A written symbol that is used to represent speech; SYN. grapheme, graphic symbol.
7. One of the symbols that can be represented in a computer.
8. Characters include letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation marks, and special symbols.

To engrave or inscribe characters on.

Množina: character actors

An actor who specializes in playing supporting roles.

Množina: character actresses

Množina: character assassinations

An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation; SYN. assassination.
The slandering of a person usually with the intention of destroying public confidence in that person

Množina: character attributes

Množina: character cells

A rectangular block of pixels that represents the space in which a given character is drawn on the screen. Computer displays use different numbers of pixels as character cells. Character cells are not always the same size for a given font, however; for proportionally spaced fonts, such as those commonly displayed on the Apple Macintosh, the height within a given font remains the same, but the width varies with each character.

Množina: character codes

A specific code that represents a particular character in a set, such as the ASCII character set. The character code for a given key depends on whether another key, such as Shift, is pressed at the same time. For example, pressing the A key alone normally generates the character code for a lowercase a. Pressing Shift plus the A key normally generates the character code for an uppercase A. Compare key code.

Množina: character conversions

Množina: character definition tables

A table of patterns that a computer can hold in memory and use as a reference for determining the arrangement of dots used to create and display bitmapped characters on the screen. See also bitmapped font.

Množina: character densities

In printing or screen display, a measure of the number of characters per unit of area or of linear distance. See also pitch (definition 1).

Množina: character devices

1. A computer device, such as a keyboard or printer, that receives or transmits information as a stream of characters, one character at a time. The characters can be transferred either bit by bit (serial transmission) or byte by byte (parallel transmission) but are not moved from place to place in blocks (groups of bytes). Compare block device.
2. In reference to video displays, a device that handles text but not graphics. See also text mode.