Character
Character or Characters may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Literature
[edit]- Character (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
- Characters (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus
Types of entity
[edit]- Character (arts), an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Character (symbol), a sign or symbol
- Character (computing), a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme
Other uses
[edit]- 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