characterwise

English

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)

Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der.

Latin charactērder.

Old French caracterebor.

Middle English caracter

English character

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós

Proto-Germanic *wīsaz

Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz

Proto-West Germanic *-wīs

Old English -wīs

Middle English -wis

English -wise

English characterwise

characterwise (not comparable)

In terms of character.
- 2009 August 22, Michael Cieply, Dave Itzkoff, “Blockbuster Trailer: The Selling of ‘Avatar’”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  “What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.
(computing) In terms of text characters.

characterwise (not comparable)

(computing) In terms of text characters.
- 1977, E. Edelhoff, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, On-line library and network systems: symposium:
  Subfields necessitate characterwise processing, because only that field is given an entry in the directory of a record which specifies the tag, the length and the starting character position of the field concerned […]