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characterwise

characterwise adverb: in terms of character.

Adverb

characterwise (not comparable)

  1. In terms of character.
    • “What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.2009 August 22, Michael Cieply, Dave Itzkoff, “Blockbuster Trailer: The Selling of ‘Avatar’”, in New York Times
  2. In terms of text characters.

Adjective

characterwise (not comparable)

  1. In terms of text characters.
    • 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[…]1977, E. Edelhoff, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, On-line library and network systems: symposium

Origin of characterwise

From character + -wise.

Questions about characterwise

What does characterwise mean?
Characterwise means in terms of character.
What part of speech is characterwise?
Characterwise can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near characterwise in the dictionary

  1. characteropathies
  2. characteropaths
  3. characteropathy
  4. characters
  5. characters per inch
  6. characterwise
  7. charactery
  8. charactonym
  9. charactonymous
  10. charactonyms
  11. charactron

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