"noncharacter" meaning in English

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        "That which is not a character (unit of text)."
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        "(computing) That which is not a character (unit of text)."
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      "glosses": [
        "That which is not a character (unit of text).",
        "One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use."
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          "character",
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        ],
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          "code point",
          "code point"
        ],
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          "plane",
          "plane"
        ]
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        "(computing) That which is not a character (unit of text).",
        "(Unicode) One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use."
      ],
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          "ref": "2009, Marc Robinson, The American Play: 1787-2000, page 325",
          "text": "Like the noncharacter at the center of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the screen's nonimage and the man it effaces enable other forms of repression, […]",
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        }
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        "That which is not a character, as in literature."
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  "etymology_text": "non- + character",
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        "That which is not a character (unit of text)."
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        "(computing) That which is not a character (unit of text)."
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        "That which is not a character (unit of text).",
        "One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use."
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        "(computing) That which is not a character (unit of text).",
        "(Unicode) One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use."
      ],
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