charactersthat

Charactersthat is not a widely established term in standard reference works. In most contexts it appears to be a concatenation of the words "characters" and "that," often arising from a typographical error, a variable name in code, or a label in a dataset. Because there is no accepted definition, interpretations of the term vary with context.

In computing and data processing, charactersthat may be encountered as a placeholder, a function name, or a field label intended to describe the set of characters that satisfy a given condition. For example, a programmer might use a predicate named charsThatAreDigits to denote the characters that are numeric. In data labeling or natural language processing, a column or feature named charactersthat could represent a collection or filter of characters meeting particular criteria.

In writing and pedagogy, the phrase could be used informally to refer to the character traits that define a fictional figure, though this usage is nonstandard. When encountered, readers should rely on surrounding context to determine whether the term denotes a linguistic/technical concept, a data label, or a shorthand for character traits.

Disambiguation tips include checking the surrounding text for indicators of programming (such as function names or code comments), data schema (column names or feature descriptions), or literary discussion (references to personality and motivation). See also: character traits, character set, regular expressions, tokenization, data labeling.