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character device

Computer; Desktop PC

1、A computer device, such as a keyboard or printer,that receives or transmits information as a stream of characters, one character at a time. The characters can betransferred ...

character printer

Computer; Desktop PC

1、A printer that operates by printing one characterat a time, such as a standard dot-matrix printer. Compare line printer, page printer. 2、A printer that cannot print graphics. ...

character recognition

Computer; Desktop PC

The process of applying pattern-matching methods to character shapes that have been read into a computer todetermine which alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks the shapes ...

character set

Computer; Desktop PC

A grouping of alphabetic, numeric, and other characters that have somerelationship in common. For example, the standard ASCII character set includes letters, numbers, symbols, ...

characters per inch

Computer; Desktop PC

A measurement for the number of characters of a particular size and font that can fit into a line one inch long. This number is affected by the type抯 point size and the width of ...

characters per second n.

Computer; Desktop PC

1、A measure of the speed of a nonlaser printer, such as a dot-matrixor an ink-jet printer. 2、A measure of the rate at which a device, such as a disk drive, cantransfer data. In ...

character string

Computer; Desktop PC

A set of characters treated as a unit and interpreted by a computeras text rather than numbers. A character string can contain any sequence of elements from a given character ...