Character or Characters may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
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''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
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''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus
Music
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''Characters'' (John Abercrombie album), 1977
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''Character'' (Dark Tranquillity album), 2005
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''Character'' (Julia Kent album), 2013
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''Character'' (Rachael Sage album), 2020
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''Characters'' (Stevie Wonder album), 1987
Types of entity
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Character (arts)
In fiction, a character (or speaker, in poetry) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, i ...
, an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
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Character sketch
In literature, a character sketch, or character, is a rough-and-ready rendering and thumbnail portrayal of an individual, capturing, in brief, that person's physical characteristics, psychological attributes, and the like. The brief descriptions ...
or character, a literary description of a character type
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Game character (disambiguation), various types of characters in a video game or role playing game
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Player character
A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not control ...
, as above but who is controlled or whose actions are directly chosen by a player
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Non-player character
A non-player character (NPC), or non-playable character, is any character in a game that is not controlled by a player. The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster o ...
, as above but not player-controlled, frequently abbreviated as NPC
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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''Character'' (film), a 1997 Dutch film based on Bordewijk's novel
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Charaktery'', a monthly magazine in Poland
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Netflix Presents: The Characters'', an improvised sketch comedy show on Netflix
Sciences
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Character (biology), the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism
Mathematics
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Character (mathematics) In mathematics, a character is (most commonly) a special kind of function from a group to a field (such as the complex numbers). There are at least two distinct, but overlapping meanings. Other uses of the word "character" are almost always qualifie ...
, a homomorphism from a group to a field
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Characterization (mathematics), the logical equivalency between objects of two different domains.
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Character theory, the mathematical theory of special kinds of characters associated to group representations
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Dirichlet character, a type of character in number theory
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Multiplicative character, a homomorphism from a group to the multiplicative subgroup of a field
Morality and social science
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Character education, a US term for values education
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Character structure, a person's traits
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Moral character
Moral character or character (derived from charaktêr) is an analysis of an individual's steady moral qualities. The concept of ''character'' can express a variety of attributes, including the presence or lack of virtues such as empathy, coura ...
, an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities
Symbols
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Character (symbol), a sign or symbol
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Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural lan ...
, a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme
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Chinese characters, a written language symbol (sinogram) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages
Other uses
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Character (income tax), a type of income for tax purposes in the US
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Sacramental character, a Catholic teaching
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Neighbourhood character, the look and feel of a built environment
See also
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Virtual character (disambiguation)
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