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character encoding

character encoding noun: a well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.

Noun

character encoding (plural character encodings)

  1. A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.

Forms of character encoding

pluralcharacter encodings

Questions about character encoding

What does character encoding mean?
Character encoding means a well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.
What part of speech is character encoding?
Character encoding is a noun.
What is the plural of character encoding?
The plural of character encoding is character encodings.

Words near character encoding in the dictionary

  1. character class
  2. character classes
  3. character density
  4. character disorder
  5. character disorders
  6. character encoding
  7. character encodings
  8. character generator
  9. character generators
  10. character head
  11. character heads

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