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Character

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Character or Characters may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Character (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
Characters (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus

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

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

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

Character (symbol), a sign or symbol
- Character (computing), a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme

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