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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The set of characters that form the basis for a particular character encoding.
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- noun computing The set of characters encoded by a given
character encoding . - noun computing A set of characters together with a
character encoding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing
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