Character
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Art & entertainment
- Character (arts) A character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr (χαρακτήρ), the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of "a part played by an, an agent in a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
- Character (1997 film) Character is a 1997 Dutch/Belgian film, based on the best-selling novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk and directed by Mike van Diem. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards. The film stars Fedja van Huêt, Jan Decleir, and Betty Schuurman, based on the novel by Dutch author Ferdinand Bordewijk
- Character (album) Character is the seventh studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band, Dark Tranquillity. The album was first released in January 24, 2005 through Century Media Records. The corresponding single, "Lost to Apathy" was previously featured on the Lost to Apathy EP, their first EP released in nearly ten years, by Dark Tranquillity
- Characters (album) Characters is a Grammy Award-nominated album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released by Motown Records on November 6, 1987 in the United States. This is Stevie Wonder's twentieth album overall, and it debuted at number seventeen on the Billboard 200 and on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart at #1, staying there for a total of seven, by Stevie Wonder
- Character Options Character Options is a British toy company, notable for having both the Disney and Doctor Who toy licenses. It hit the headlines during 2007 as the UK distributor for the Bindeez range of products was recalled due to a dangerous chemical, a toy company
- The Characters, a book by the Greek philosopher Theophrastus Theophrastus , a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age, and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle. Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and designated him as his successor at the Lyceum
Mathematics, science and technology
- Character (biology) A trait is a distinct variant of a phenotypic character of an organism that may be inherited, environmentally determined or somewhere in between. For example, eye color is a character or abstraction of an attribute, while blue, brown and hazel are traits, the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism
- Character (mathematics) In mathematics, a character is a special kind of function from a group to a field (such as the complex numbers). There are at least two distinct, but overlapping meanings. Other uses of the word "character" are almost always qualified, a type of function used in algebra
- Character structure A character structure is a system of relatively permanent motivational and other traits that are manifested in the specific ways that an individual relates and reacts to others, to various kinds of stimuli, and the environment that will most likely bring about a normal or productive character structure. On the other hand, a child whose nurture and/, a psychological system of personal traits
- Moral character Moral character or character is an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits. Moral character primarily refers to the assemblage of, an evaluation of a particular individual's moral qualities
- Game character, a fictional character in a video game or role playing game
- Player character A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters are often also metonymically called players. Some, as above but who is controlled or whose actions are directly chosen by a player
- Non-player character A non-player character, often shortened to NPC, is a character that is controlled by the gamemaster in role-playing games. When this definition extends to video games, an NPC in a video game is usually part of the program, and not controlled by a human, as above but not player-controlled
Symbols
- Character (computing) In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language, a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme A grapheme is a fundamental unit in a written language. Examples of graphemes include alphabetic letters, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems
- Character (symbol) A character (from the Greek χαρακτήρ "engraved or stamped mark , branding mark, symbol") may refer to any sign or symbol, a sign or symbol
- Chinese character A Chinese character, also known as a Han character , is a logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kanji), less frequently Korean (hanja), and formerly Vietnamese (hán tự), and other languages. Chinese characters are also known as sinographs, and the Chinese writing system as sinography. Chinese characters represent the oldest, a written language symbol (sinogram) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages
Other
- Character (income tax) For purposes of calculating a taxpayer's tax liability, character is the type of income. In the U.S. the Supreme Court decided in Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co. that income is an accession to wealth, however capital gain is of different character from ordinary income. Ordinary income includes earned wage income and interest income from lending, a type of income for tax purposes in the USA
- Sacramental character According to Roman Catholic Church teaching, a sacramental character is an indelible spiritual mark imprinted by three of the seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders, a Catholic teaching
See also
- All pages beginning with "Character"
- All pages with titles containing "Character"
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