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fictional character: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel" quality: a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" good repute; "he is a man of character" a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively" a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes engrave or inscribe characters on
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| Charcot |
French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893)
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| Charles |
King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574) King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461) as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877) King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685) son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649) the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948) French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823) Charlemagne: king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814) a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
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| characteristic |
feature: a prominent aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics" a distinguishing quality the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions typical or distinctive; "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra"
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| Charles's law |
Gay-Lussac's law: (physics) the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the temperature
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