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characterwise

adv, adj — 3 senses

characterwise

adv

Etymology From character + -wise.

1

In terms of character.

  • “What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.2009 August 22, Michael Cieply, Dave Itzkoff, “Blockbuster Trailer: The Selling of ‘Avatar’”, in New York Times:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences In terms of text characters.

characterwise

adj

Etymology From character + -wise.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences In terms of text characters.

  • Subfields necessitate characterwise processing, because only that field is given an entry in the directory of a record which specifies the tag, the length and the starting character position of the field concerned[…]1977, E. Edelhoff, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, On-line library and network systems: symposium:

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