In fictional television or other episodic media, a character who becomes the most popular, talked about, and imitated, helping to establish the narrative's popularity.

(role-playing games, video games) A character in a role-playing game or computer game whose actions are not controlled by a player.

plural of charabanc

plural of charade

A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.

Any of many diverse fish, of the order Characiformes, related to the carp and catfish and including the tetra, which were formerly all included in the family Characidae.

(computing, telecommunications) A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.

The branch of abstract algebra dealing with group characters.

plural of characin

(linear algebra) The polynomial produced from a given square matrix by first subtracting the appropriate identity matrix multiplied by an indeterminant and then calculating the determinant.