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ASCII CHARACTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ASCII character" is a kind of...):
character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ASCII character"):
ASCII control character; control character (ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time)
Holonyms ("ASCII character" is a part of...):
American Standard Code for Information Interchange; ASCII ((computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers)
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