Char may refer to:
People
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Char Fontane
Char "Kaci" Fontane (January 12, 1952 – April 1, 2007) was an American actress and singer.
She was born Kerry Charae Fontane in Los Angeles, to singer Tony Fontane and his wife, actress Kerry Vaughn Fontane. Early in her career, Fontane wo ...
, American actress
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Char Margolis
Char Margolis is an American author and self-proclaimed psychic medium. Margolis's claims to have paranormal abilities have been criticised by several media outlets which suggest she uses standard cold reading and hot reading tricks to perfo ...
, American spiritualist
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René Char (1907–1988), French poet
*The Char family of Colombia:
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Fuad Char, Colombian senator
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Alejandro Char Chaljub, mayor of Barranquilla
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Arturo Char Chaljub, Colombian senator
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David Char Navas, Colombian senator
**Sofia Daccarett Char, better known as
Sofia Carson
Sofía Daccarett Char (born April 10, 1993), known professionally as Sofia Carson, is an American actress and singer. Her first appearance on television was as a guest star on the Disney Channel series ''Austin & Ally''. In 2015, she received r ...
, American actress and singer
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Char (musician), stage name of Japanese musician Hisato Takenaka (born 1955)
Other uses
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River Char
The River Char is a river in Dorset. The Char runs a few miles from Bettiscombe to Charmouth, passing Pilsdon
Pilsdon is a hamlet and civil parish in the Dorset unitary authority area of Dorset, England. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-y ...
, a river in Dorset, England
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Char (chemistry)
Char is the solid material that remains after light gases (e.g. coal gas) and tar have been driven out or released from a carbonaceous material during the initial stage of combustion, which is known as carbonization, charring, devolatilization ...
, the solid material that forms during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material
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Char (fish)
''Salvelinus'' is a genus of salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout". ''Salvelinus'' is a member of the subfamily Salmoninae within the family Salmonidae. The genus has a northern circumpolar distribution, and ...
, a common name for fishes in the genus ''Salvelinus'', including Arctic char
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Char Aznable
, born and also gone by the name , is a fictional character from the '' Gundam'' franchise. He is originally one of the main antagonists in ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' working for the Principality of Zeon, named after his late father Zeon Zum Deikun ...
, a fictional character from the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' series
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char
in ANSI/ISO C is a value holding one byte (which was the size of a character in legacy encodings such as ASCII)
*A common slang term for
tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of ''Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and north ...
throughout the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries
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charwoman
A charwoman (also chargirl, charlady or char) is an old-fashioned occupational term, referring to a paid part-time worker who comes into a house or other building to clean it for a few hours of a day or week, as opposed to a maid, who usually ...
, a cleaning woman
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characteristic (algebra) of a ring in mathematics
*Any French tank (from ''char d'assaut''), but more specifically one with a short designation such as:
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Char B1
The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before World War II.
The Char B1 was a specialised break-through vehicle, originally conceived as a self-propelled gun with a 75 mm howitzer in the hull; later a 47 mm gun in a turre ...
, a French heavy tank manufactured before the Second World War
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Char 2C
The Char 2C, also known as the FCM 2C, was a French heavy tank, later also seen as a super-heavy tank. It was developed during World War I but not deployed until after the war. It was, in total volume or physical dimensions, the largest operat ...
, a super-heavy French tank developed during the First World War
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Char D1
The Char D1 was an Interwar French light tank.
The French plan of 1926, calling for the creation of a Light Infantry Support Tank, led to the development of the existing Renault NC1 prototype into the Char D1. One hundred and sixty vehicles of t ...
, a pre-World War II French tank
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Char D2
The Char D2 was a French medium tank of the interwar period.
In 1930, at a time the Char D1 had not even entered production, the Renault company agreed to build a better armoured version called the Char D2. By not using old-fashioned rivets, it ...
, a French tank of the Interbellum
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Char G1
The Char G1 was a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank. Several prototypes from different companies were developed from 1936 onwards, but not a single one had been fully completed at the time of the Fall of France in 1940. The ...
, a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank
See also
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Charr (disambiguation)
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Chars, commune in France
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