2.A character recognition term; the improper state of appearance of a character, line, or document, on site in a characterreader, with respect to a real or imaginary horizontal base line.
3.In the IBM3886 Optical CharacterReader, an area of a line that is scanned without data transmission. A nonscan field must begin and end with address delimiters, not character delimiters.
4.An electronic component of an optical characterreader that alters the signal from the scanner to receive a processed rendition of the input character that is more appropriate for detailed or more advanced analysis.
5.Based on the principle of humanitarianism, Faulkner carries out in Light in August the dialogue between characters, the dialogue within characters, the dialogue between the author and the character and the dialogue between the author and the reader.