"combining character" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "combining characters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "combining character (plural combining characters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can display c with macron (c̄) by merging the combining character macron with the letter c.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, page 383",
          "text": "Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters)."
      ],
      "id": "en-combining_character-en-noun-dKsz3m4H",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "modifies",
          "modify"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "base character",
          "base character"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "grapheme cluster"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "combining mark"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "combining character"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "combining characters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "combining character (plural combining characters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "grapheme cluster"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can display c with macron (c̄) by merging the combining character macron with the letter c.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, page 383",
          "text": "Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "modifies",
          "modify"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "base character",
          "base character"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "combining mark"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "combining character"
}