characterwise

English

Etymology

From character +‎ -wise.

Adverb

characterwise (not comparable)

1. In terms of character.
   • 2009 August 22, Michael Cieply, Dave Itzkoff, “Blockbuster Trailer: The Selling of ‘Avatar’”, in New York Times‎:

     “What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.

2. (computing) In terms of text characters.

Adjective

characterwise (not comparable)

1. (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 […]