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   char·ac·ter

   /ˈker(ə)ktər/

   noun

   • 1. the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual: "running away was not in keeping with her character" Similar personalitynaturedispositiontemperamenttempermentalityturn of mindpsychologypsycheconstitutionmakeupmakestampmoldcastpersonaattributesfeaturesqualitiespropertiestraitsessential qualityessencesum and substanceindividualityidentitydistinctivenessuniquenessspiritethoscomplexionkeytonetenorambienceairaurafeelfeelingvibrationsinformal:kidneyarchaic:humorgrain
   • ▪ the distinctive nature of something: "gas lamps give the area its character" Similar personalitynaturedispositiontemperamenttempermentalityturn of mindpsychologypsycheconstitutionmakeupmakestampmoldcastpersonaattributesfeaturesqualitiespropertiestraitsessential qualityessencesum and substanceindividualityidentitydistinctivenessuniquenessspiritethoscomplexionkeytonetenorambienceairaurafeelfeelingvibrationsinformal:kidneyarchaic:humorgrain
   • ▪ the quality of being individual in an interesting or unusual way: "the island is full of character"
   • ▪ strength and originality in a person's nature: "she had character as well as beauty" Similar integrityhonormoral strengthmoral fiberrectitudeuprightnessfortitudestrengthspinebackbonetoughnessresolvewill powerfirmness of purposeinformal:gritgutsgutsinessgumptionbottle
   • ▪ a person's good reputation: "to what do I owe this attack on my character?" Similar reputationnamegood namestandingstaturepositionstatusimagecredibilityacceptabilityprestigecachetkudoseminenceizzatarchaic:report
   • ▪ a written statement of someone's good qualities; a recommendation: dated "you are dismissed without a character"
   • 2. a person in a novel, play, or movie: "the author's compassionate identification with his characters" Similar personapersonrolepartdramatis personae
   • ▪ a part played by an actor: "the actor's TV character is often on the wrong side of the law" Similar personapersonrolepartdramatis personae
   • ▪ a person seen in terms of a particular aspect of character: "he was a larger-than-life character"
   • ▪ an interesting or amusing individual: informal "he's a real character" Similar eccentricoddityodd fellowmadcapcrankoriginalindividualistnonconformistrare birdsquare peg in a round holeinformal:oddballoneodd bodonerqueer fishodd fishinformal, dated:cardcautioncaserare:rara avis
   • 3. a printed or written letter or symbol.
   • ▪ a symbol representing a letter or number. Similar letterfiguresymbolsignmarktypecipherdevicehieroglyphrunetechnical:grapheme
   • 4. a characteristic, especially one that assists in the identification of a species.

   verb

   • 1. inscribe; engrave. archaic
   • ▪ describe; characterize: archaic "you have well charactered him"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French caractere, via Latin from Greek kharaktēr ‘a stamping tool’. From the early sense ‘distinctive mark’ arose ‘token, feature, or trait’ (early 16th century), and from this ‘a description, especially of a person's qualities’, giving rise to ‘distinguishing qualities’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. characterless adjective

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 35105468How to #define a character in C++ - Stack Overflow

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   Jan 31, 2016 · The cast is fine, it has no run-time impact, but you can define character constants of any value directly using the \x escape sequence to specify characters by their hexadecimal character code - useful for non-printing or extended characters. #define ASCII_ENQ `\x5` But in C++ you'd do better to use a const (which has explicit type): static const char ASCII_ENQ = 5 ; or static const char ASCII ...

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 1431576How do you declare string constants in C? - Stack Overflow

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   Aug 15, 2012 · The main disadvantage of the #define method is that the string is duplicated each time it is used, so you can end up with lots of copies of it in the executable, making it bigger.

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 1137354Oracle SQL escape character (for a '&') - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 1137354

   Jul 16, 2009 · The real answer is you need to set the escape character to '\': SET ESCAPE ON. The problem may have occurred either because escaping was disabled, or the escape character was set to something other than '\'. The above statement will enable escaping and set it to '\'. None of the other answers previously posted actually answer the original question.

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 44852800c - Define char in header - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 44852800

   This will declare the variable (just like declaring functions in header files), so the compiler does not complain when it sees myGlobalVar referenced in the other .c files (knowing that it has been declared). Then put this in one (and only 1) of the 3 files (1.c 2.c or 3.c): char* myGlobalVar = "blah"; This defines the variable, which assigns ...

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 34675555Python char array declaration - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 34675555

   Jan 8, 2016 · Is there a way to declare a char array of a fixed size in python as in C for example char myArray[100] I also want to initializa all the characters with NULL.

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 8732325How to declare strings in C - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 8732325

   Strings in C are represented as arrays of characters. char *p = "String"; You are declaring a pointer that points to a string stored some where in your program (modifying this string is undefined behavior) according to the C programming language 2 ed. char p2[] = "String"; You are declaring an array of char initialized with the string "String ...

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 3374842How do you declare a Char literal in Visual Basic .NET?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 3374842

   A character literal is entered using a single character string suffixed with a C.

9. stackoverflow.com › questions › 26973570html - Setting a max character length in CSS - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 26973570

   May 27, 2017 · If your using textarea or input there is a max length (maxlength="50" this is in the HTML) property for them or you would have to use Javascript. Also I think I misread this, setting a width will force the sentence to drop to the next line when it hits the end. This is default behaviour.

10. stackoverflow.com › questions › 8534178How to represent empty char in Java Character class

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 8534178

    Dec 16, 2011 · The closest you can go about representing empty character literal is through zero length char [], something like: char[] cArr = {}; // cArr is a zero length array. char[] cArr = new char[0] // this does the same. If you refer to String class its default constructor creates a empty character sequence using new char[0] Also, using Character.MIN ...

11. stackoverflow.com › questions › 42463856Python: Declare as integer and character - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 42463856

    You don’t really declare variables in Python*; you just assign to them, which creates them if necessary. (* except for with type annotations, and those still aren’t declarations.)