Character
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Character or Characters may refer to:
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Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
- Character (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
- Characters (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus
Music
- Character (Dark Tranquillity album), 2005
- Character (Julia Kent album), 2013
- Character, an album by Rachael Sage, 2020
- Characters (John Abercrombie album), 1977
- Characters (Stevie Wonder album), 1987
- "Character", a song by Ryokuoushoku Shakai, 2022
Types of entity
- Character (arts), an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
- Character actor, an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles
- Character sketch or character, a literary description of a character type
- Game character (disambiguation), various types of characters in a video game or role playing game
- Player character, as above but who is controlled or whose actions are directly chosen by a player
- Non-player character, as above but not player-controlled, frequently abbreviated as NPC
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Character (film), a 1997 Dutch film based on Bordewijk's novel
- Charaktery, a monthly magazine in Poland
- Netflix Presents: The Characters, an improvised sketch comedy show on Netflix
Mathematics
- Character (mathematics), a homomorphism from a group to a field
- Characterization (mathematics), the logical equivalency between objects of two different domains.
- Character theory, the mathematical theory of special kinds of characters associated to group representations
- Dirichlet character, a type of character in number theory
- Multiplicative character, a homomorphism from a group to the multiplicative subgroup of a field
Morality and social science
- Character education, a US term for values education
- Character structure, a person's traits
- Moral character, an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities
Symbols
- Character (symbol), a sign or symbol
- Character (computing), a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme
Other uses
- Character (biology), the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism
- Character (income tax), a type of income for tax purposes in the US
- Sacramental character, a Catholic teaching
- Neighbourhood character, the look and feel of a built environment
See also
- (character) (disambiguation)
- Virtual character (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Character
- All pages with titles containing Character
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