noncharacter
/nɑnˈkɛrɪktər/
noun
- A person who is not a character in a story, play, or film; a real person or an extra with no defined role.
- The director hired several noncharacters to fill the background of the crowd scene.
- In the novel, the narrator is a noncharacter who simply observes the events.
- The play had only three main actors; everyone else was a noncharacter.
- A symbol or mark that is not a letter, number, or punctuation mark in a writing system (e.g., a space, control code, or special glyph).
- The file contained a noncharacter that caused the program to crash.
- When you press the spacebar, you insert a noncharacter into the text.
- The encoding error turned some letters into noncharacters.
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