noun
- Multiple characters or symbols, especially in computing, text processing, or character encoding contexts.
Usage: technical; often used in plural form; common in computing and linguistics
Examples
- The database stores multicharacters to represent complex Unicode symbols.
- In text processing, multicharacters can represent ligatures or combined diacritical marks.
- The programming language supports multicharacters in string literals.
- Multicharacters are essential for representing non-Latin writing systems.
- The search function can handle multicharacters and special symbols.