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character set

character set noun: the set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.

Noun

character set (plural character sets)

  1. The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
    • In conventional mathematics terminology then, a "character set" is not just a set of characters, but a function whose domain is a set of integers, and whose range is a set of characters.1995 May 2, Dan Connolly, “Character Set Considered Harmful, Internet Draft”, in HTML Working Group
  2. A set of characters together with a character encoding.

character set meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

character set in Tamil

உருக் கணம்

character set in Vietnamese

set of characters in a character encoding
bảng mã, bảng mã ký tự, bảng mã kí tự, bộ mã, bộ mã ký tự, bộ mã kí tự

Forms of character set

pluralcharacter sets

Questions about character set

What does character set mean?
Character set means the set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
What is character set in Tamil?
Character set in Tamil is உருக் கணம். See Character set meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is character set?
Character set is a noun.
What is the plural of character set?
The plural of character set is character sets.

Words near character set in the dictionary

  1. character parts
  2. character piece
  3. character pieces
  4. character reference
  5. character references
  6. character set
  7. character sets
  8. character shoe
  9. character shoes
  10. character state
  11. character studies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: character set (page history and authors); character set (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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