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Term: CHARACTER

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A single letter, digit or punctuation symbol. A character is equal to one byte. For example, 50,000 characters take up 50,000 bytes. A graphic shape representing a letter, digit, punctuation mark or other symbol. A single group of bars and spaces, which represents one letter, digit, etc. in a barcode. A symbol that is used in the organization, control or presentation of data; for example, a start or stop character in a barcode or a function code in an OCR string of data.

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