characterwise
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]characterwise (not comparable)
- In terms of character.
- 2009 August 22, Michael Cieply, Dave Itzkoff, “Blockbuster Trailer: The Selling of ‘Avatar’”, in New York Times[1]:
- “What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.
- (computing) In terms of text characters.
Adjective
[edit]characterwise (not comparable)
- (computing) In terms of text characters.
- 1977, E. Edelhoff, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, On-line library and network systems: symposium:
- 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 […]