letterwise
adjEtymology From letter + -wise.
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In terms of letters of the alphabet.
- Skillful readers' processing of text seems far too fast and efficient to be based on letterwise processing of its print.1994, Marilyn Jager Adams, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print, page 105:
- […] an encryption algorithm with multiple usage of a secret key for the letterwise encryption of prefixes […]2008, Joachim Biskup, Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and Solutions, page 410: