ASCII CHARACTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ASCII character mean? 

• ASCII CHARACTER (noun)
  The noun ASCII CHARACTER has 1 sense:

1. any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers

  Familiarity information: ASCII CHARACTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCII CHARACTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ASCII character" is a kind of...):

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ASCII character"):

ASCII control character; control character (ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time)

Holonyms ("ASCII character" is a part of...):

American Standard Code for Information Interchange; ASCII ((computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers)