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