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(computing, of a word size, or an integer) Represented using 7 bits (ASCII).
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(British) Any of a set of street maps of most British towns and cities; properly the Geographer's A–Z Street Atlas.
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(computing) A 7-bit character set and character encoding, abbreviated ASCII. Based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English, the code is employed almost universally on computing machinery.
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(computing) A set of obsolete single-byte character encodings for the Armenian alphabet.
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(computing) Alternative form of ASCII
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The symbol @, most commonly used in e-mail addresses.
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Alternative form of at sign [The symbol @, most commonly used in e-mail addresses.]
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(computing, historical) An ASCII-based character set used in the Atari 8-bit family of home computers of the 1980s.
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(computing) A character whose appearance is modified by one or more combining characters.
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An early character encoding used in telegraphy, representing each letter in the alphabet by five bits (binary digits).
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(computing) A character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters.
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(computing) Basic Multilingual Plane (one of the sets of character codepoints in Unicode, formally known as Plane 0; the conventional full set of all characters in basic Unicode, using the 65,536-codepoint range from U+0000 through U+FFFF).
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(computing) A character indicating the endianness of a string of text; specifically, the Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.
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(programming) A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
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(Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
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(programming) The characteristic of being case sensitive; having different reactions to typed letters based on whether the letters are uppercase or lowercase.
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(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
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(countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
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(computing) The imaginary rectangle that delineates the boundaries of a text character.
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(regular expressions) A set of related text characters, such as all alphanumerics or all whitespace.
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(computing) A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.
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A software-based list of characters and sometimes their codepoints, for searching and copying.
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(computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
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(computing) In terms of text characters.
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(programming) Conversion to, or treatment as, a char (text character).
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(computing) A character set.
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A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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(computing) A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to the character or item it represents.
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The number of characters in the coded version of a string.
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(computing) A mapping to a particular character set, where there are several possible sets that share the same code points. Abbreviation: cp.
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Alternative spelling of code point [(computing) A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to the character or item it represents.]
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A set of pairs of text characters and associated coded forms.
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(computing) A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters).
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(computing, typography) A character encoded from a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.
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(linguistics, computer science) An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.
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(typography) Initialism of character(s) per pica.
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Synonym of alphametic (“type of puzzle”)
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(Unicode) Canonical decomposition
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(computing, typography) Of a typeface, having characters of only two widths, where the narrower width is typically half that of the wider width.
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(computing, networking) an obsolete EUI which originally encompassed both MAC-48 and EUI-48 identifiers by a simple translation mechanism
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(computing) Any of various 8-bit character sets that are supersets of ASCII.
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(computing theory) A set of finite strings (called words) made of symbols (from a finite set of symbols, called an alphabet).
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(cryptography) Pertaining to a four-square cipher.
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(in bibliographies) Abbreviation of graphic. [A drawing or picture.]
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(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
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(information science) A controlled set of terms selected from natural language and used to represent, in summary form, the subjects of documents within a given field of knowledge.
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short alphabetic or numeric identifier assigned to a language.
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(computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (specific number of bits depends upon architecture)
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(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
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(computing) A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.
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(cryptography) That uses a single letter as a cipher
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(computing) Contained in more than one byte.
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(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
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Any text character that is not alphanumeric.
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(Unicode) One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points - U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF - of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use.
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(computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
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(computing) A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.
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Alternative form of ROT13 [A simple Caesar cipher where each letter is replaced by the letter 13 positions beyond it in the alphabet (wrapping at Z to A).]
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A simple Caesar cipher where each letter is replaced by the letter 13 positions beyond it in the alphabet (wrapping at Z to A).
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(computing) A symbol that is not an alphanumeric character; a nonalphanumeric character.
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(programming, humorous) Characterized by an excessive use of strings to represent non-textual data.
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Any of the components making up a complex text character.
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(computing) The string (sequence of text characters) that contains a substring.
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(computing, Unicode) Any character assigned a code point in one of the supplementary planes (planes 1 through 16, covering the range U+10000 through U+10FFFF).
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(computing) Any of the 16 Unicode planes located above Plane 0 (the BMP) and requiring the use of surrogate pairs to encode in UTF-16 (Planes 1 through 16, collectively covering the range of code points from U+10000 through U+10FFFF).
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(computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
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(computing, Unicode) The UTF-16 representation of a supplementary character, using one high surrogate and one low surrogate to encode the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the supplementary character's code point.
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(international standards, computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
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(computing, dated) A graphic symbol defined by the user, replacing one of the text characters in the computer's character set.
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(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-16; a Unicode encoding scheme which uses two-byte (16-bit) code units (singly for characters in plane 0, and in four-byte [32-bit] surrogate pairs for supplementary characters in planes 1 through 16).
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(computing, Unicode) Unicode Transformation Format-32, a fixed-width encoding for Unicode characters which uses 4 bytes (32 bits) to encode each character.
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(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-7; a variable-length character encoding designed for 7-bit channels.
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(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.
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Alternative spelling of UTF-16 [(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-16; a Unicode encoding scheme which uses two-byte (16-bit) code units (singly for characters in plane 0, and in four-byte [32-bit] surrogate pairs for supplementary characters in planes 1 through 16).]
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Alternative spelling of UTF-7 [(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-7; a variable-length character encoding designed for 7-bit channels.]
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Alternative spelling of UTF-8 [(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.]
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(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
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(telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
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(computing) A bit in each memory location on some variable-word-length computers (e.g. IBM 1401, IBM 1620) used to mark the end of a word.
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(computing) Two-byte unsigned data, mainly used for a Unicode character.
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(computing, slang, dated, rare) The text character with hexadecimal value 0xff, when used as a string separator or terminator.
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