1. A combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, thing, or group from each other: Every individual is normally judged by his or her own character.

Someone who cheats is considered to have very little character.

2. A distinctive feature or attribution that is determined by moral or ethical behavior: The police were tracking a suspicious character they believed might have been involved in a robbery.
3. A formal written statement as to one's competency which is provided by an employer regarding a former employee: Jane's previous supervisor wrote about her reliable character for her new position with another company.

To write, print, engrave, or inscribe: Characters are used when something is written or printed; for example, letters a-z or numbers.

A dramatic professional: Brian is known for playing many different and unusual characters in movies.

A vicious and personal verbal attack; especially, one intended to destroy or to damage a public figure's reputation.

A dance that represents a particular style that a person performs; especially in ballet.

Someone who attests or declares another person's moral conduct and good reputation in a court of law: Edward was a character witness who testified in behalf of his fellow worker that she was honest and never did anything that would substantiate the charges that were brought against her.

1. That branch of character recognition concerned with the automatic identification of handwritten or printed characters by any of various photoelectric methods.
2. A method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer.

The light reflected by a printed text; for example, is recorded as patterns of light and dark areas by an array of photoelectric cells in a optical scanner.