Meanings
adverbcharacterwise (not comparable)
- not comparableIn terms of character.
“What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.
2009 August 22, Michael Cieply, Dave Itzkoff, “Blockbuster Trailer: The Selling of ‘Avatar’”, in New York Times - not comparablecomputingIn terms of text characters.
adjectivecharacterwise (not comparable)
- not comparablecomputingIn terms of text characters.
Subfields necessitate characterwise processing, because only that field is given an entry in the directory of a record which specifies the tag, the length and the starting character position of the field concerned[…]
1977, E. Edelhoff, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, On-line library and network systems: symposium
Origin
- Ancient Greekχαράσσω (kharássō)
- Ancient Greekχαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)
- Latincharactēr
- Old Frenchcaractere
- Middle Englishcaracter
- Englishcharacter
- Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
- Proto-Indo-European*wéydos
- Proto-Indo-European*weyd-s-ós
- Proto-Germanic*wīsaz
- Englishcharacterwise
Cite this entry
APA
characterwise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/characterwise
MLA
“characterwise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/characterwise. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “characterwise,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/characterwise.
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