metacharacter
English
noun
Definitions
- (computing) A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.
Etymology
Prefix from English character (a distinguishing feature of a taxon).
Origin
English
character
Gloss
a distinguishing feature of a taxon
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bicharacter English
- biocharacter English
- character English
- character reference English
- characterful English
- characterhood English
- characterisation English
- characterise English
- characterism English
- characterize English
- characterless English
- characterlike English
- characterologist English
- characterology English
- characteropathy English
- characterwise English
- charactonym English
- cocharacter English
- demicharacter English
- escape character English
- intercharacter English
- lead character English
- microcharacter English
- multicharacter English
- noncharacter English
- pseudocharacter English
- subcharacter English
- supercharacter English
- χαρακτήρ Ancient Greek
- ゆるキャラ Japanese
- caracter Middle English
- karakter Cebuano
- 캐릭터 Korean
- character
- cocharacter
- charactonym
- bicharacter
- characterize
- characterism
- characterful
- noncharacter
- biocharacter
- characterise
- subcharacter
- characterhood
- demicharacter
- characterless
- characterlike
- characterwise
- intercharacter
- supercharacter
- microcharacter
- multicharacter
- characterology
- lead character
- characteropathy
- pseudocharacter
- characterologist
- escape character
- characterisation
- character reference