| Subject | English | Polish |
| biol. | acquired character | cecha nabyta |
| econ. | activities of an industrial character:activities.of a commercial character | działalność o charakterze przemysłowym, działalność o charakterze handlowym |
| comp., MS | agent character | postać agenta (An interactive animated character who guides users through Windows Welcome. The character interacts with the user in ways similar to the natural aspects of human social communication. Characters can respond by using synthesized speech, recorded audio, or text in a cartoon word balloon) |
| comp., MS | ANSI character set | zestaw znaków standardu ANSI (An 8-bit character set used by Microsoft Windows that allows you to represent up to 256 characters (0 through 255) by using your keyboard. The ASCII character set is a subset of the ANSI set) |
| comp., MS | ASCII character set | zestaw znaków ASCII (A standard 7-bit code for representing ASCII characters using binary values; code values range from 0 to 127. Most PC-based systems use an 8-bit extended ASCII code, with an extra 128 characters used to represent special symbols, foreign-language characters, and graphic symbols) |
| construct. | automatic character reader | czytnik |
| construct. | automatic character reader | automat czytający |
| comp., MS | base character | znak podstawowy (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| agric. | breeding characters | właściwości rasy |
| agric. | breeding characters | cechy rasy |
| comp., MS | bullet character | punktor (A typographical symbol, such as a filled or empty circle, diamond, box, or asterisk, used to set off a small block of text or each item in a list) |
| telegr. | call control character | znak wywołania |
| telegr. | character check | kontrola znakowa |
| comp., MS | character code | kod znaku (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| telegr. | character cycle | cykl znakowy |
| comp., MS | character data | dane znakowe (All the textual content of an element or attribute that is not markup. XML differentiates this plain text from binary data. In the XML OM, character data is stored in text nodes, which are implemented as DOM text objects) |
| comp., MS | character encoding | kodowanie znaku (A one-to-one mapping between a set of characters and a set of numbers) |
| comp., MS | character entity | jednostka znaku (A code that's used in HTML to describe symbols, international letters, and other special characters. Character entities are maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO)) |
| telegr. | character error ratio | stopa błędów znakowa |
| comp., MS | character formatting | formatowanie znaku (Formatting you can apply to selected text characters) |
| telegr. | character in phase | synfazowość znaków |
| vac.tub. | character indicator tube | wskaźnik jarzeniowy alfanumeryczny |
| telegr. | character interleaved telegraphy | telegrafia wielokrotna z przeplotem znaków |
| comp., MS | character map | tablica znaków (In text-based computer graphics, a block of memory addresses that correspond to character spaces on a display screen. The memory allocated to each character space is used to hold the description of the character to be displayed in that space) |
| comp., MS | character mode | tryb znakowy (" A display mode in which the monitor can display letters, numbers, and other text characters but no graphical images or WYSIWYG ("what-you-see-is-what-you-get") character formatting (italics, superscript, and so on).") |
| comp., MS | character pad | konsola znaków (The pad in Tablet PC Input Panel that you can use to write one character (such as a letter, number, or symbol) at a time. Each character is converted into typed text) |
| telegr. | character-serial transmission | transmisja szeregowa znaków |
| comp., MS | character set | zestaw znaków (A grouping of alphabetic, numeric, and other characters that have some relationship in common. For example, the standard ASCII character set includes letters, numbers, symbols, and control codes that make up the ASCII coding scheme) |
| telegr. | character signal | sygnał znaku |
| comp., MS | character spacing | odstępy między znakami (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| IT, geogr. | character string | łańcuch znaków |
| comp., MS | character string | ciąg znakowy (A set of characters treated as a unit and interpreted by a computer as text rather than numbers. A character string can contain any sequence of elements from a given character set, such as letters, numbers, control characters, and extended ASCII characters) |
| comp., MS | character style | styl znaku (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| telegr. | character switching | komutacja znaków |
| telegr. | character telegraphy | telegrafia znakowa |
| telegr. | character telegraphy | telegrafia alfabetowa |
| fig. | collection of characters | galeria postaci |
| cust. | commercial character of goods | charakter handlowy towarów |
| comp., MS | composite character | znak składany (A text element consisting of a base character and a diacritic or accent mark. Although most common in the Latin script, other scripts (including Greek, Devanagari, and Tamil) also have composite characters) |
| telegr. | control character | znak sterujący |
| comp., MS | control character | znak kontrolny (A character that is inserted in right-to-left and mixed text to specify the formatting of text when the inherent directionality of the text is insufficient to display expected results) |
| agric. | dam characters | właściwości matek (u zwierząt gospodarskich) |
| agric. | degree of winter character | stopień ozimości (in plants) |
| gen. | different character | inność |
| comp., MS | directory character | znak katalogu (" A character that is used to denote the directory, for instance "\" or "/" or ":". Depending on what OS you're running on e.g. c:\bin\dos\ would be a directory on your machine.") |
| gen. | dodgy character | typ spod ciemnej gwiazdy |
| agric. | dominant character | cecha panująca |
| agric. | dominant character | cecha dominująca |
| comp., MS | double byte character set | zestaw znaków dwubajtowych (A character set that can use more than one byte to represent a single character. A DBCS includes some characters that consist of 1 byte and some characters that consist of 2 bytes. Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean use DBCS) |
| comp., MS | double-byte character set | zestaw znaków dwubajtowych (A character set that can use more than one byte to represent a single character. A DBCS includes some characters that consist of 1 byte and some characters that consist of 2 bytes. Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean use DBCS) |
| comp., MS | double-byte characters | znaki dwubajtowe (A set of characters in which each character is represented by two bytes. Some languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, require double-byte character sets) |
| gen. | dubious character | niewiarygodność dokumentu |
| gen. | enigmatic character | enigmatyczność |
| telegr. | erroneous character | znak błędny |
| comp., MS | escape character | znak ucieczki (A single character that suppresses any special meaning of the character that follows it) |
| tax. | essential character | zasadniczy charakter |
| gen. | European character | europejskość |
| gen. | evolutionary character | ewolucyjność |
| comp., MS | extended character | znak rozszerzony (Any of the 128 additional characters in the extended ASCII (8-bit) character set. These characters include those in several non-English languages, such as accent marks, and special symbols used for creating pictures) |
| agric. | fine-fibrous character | cienkowłóknistość |
| gen. | formal character | oficjalność formalność |
| comp., MS | four character code | kod czteroznakowy (A 32-bit unsigned integer that is created by concatenating four ASCII characters to identify a data format) |
| gen. | global character | globalny charakter |
| fin. | to have the character of a revenue-producing monopoly | mieć charakter monopolu skarbowego |
| biol. | hereditary character | cecha wrodzona |
| biol. | hereditary character | cecha dziedziczna |
| comp., MS | icon character | postać symboliczna (The animated icon from the Help and Support Center that guides users through their first-run experience or Windows Welcome) |
| comp., MS | identifier type character | znak typu identyfikatora (" A character that that forces a literal to assume a data type other than the one its form indicates. You do this by appending the character to the end of the literal. For example, "%" forces the Integer data type of the literal "L" in the following declaration: Dim L%.") |
| gen. | immethodical character | niesystematyczność |
| biol. | inheritance of acquired characters | dziedziczenie cech nabytych |
| zoot. | inheritance of breed characters | odziedziczenie właściwości cech rasowych |
| agric. | inherited character | cecha odziedziczona |
| biol. | innate character | cecha wrodzona |
| gen. | innovative character | postępowość programu |
| telegr. | inter-character rest condition | spoczynek międzyznakowy |
| fin. | irrevocable standby letter of credit having the character of a credit substitute | nieodwołalna akredytywa "standby" niemająca charakteru substytutu kredytu |
| gen. | it is not in his character | to nie leży w jego charakterze |
| comp., MS | leader character | znak wiodący (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| comp., MS | list-separator character | znak separatora listy (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| comp., MS | literal type character | postać literałowa typu (A textual representation of a particular value of a data type. For example, 2147483647 represents a value of integer data type) |
| comp., MS | magnetic ink character recognition | system rozpoznawania znaków zapisanych atramentem magnetycznym (A character recognition system for reading and processing data that uses special inks and characters) |
| comp., MS | magnetic ink character recognition line | wiersz rozpoznawania znaków wydrukowanych atramentem magnetycznym (A line of characters that is encoded with a special type of ink that can be magnetized and then translated into characters. MICR lines are used on bank checks to identify the bank, account, and check) |
| gen. | main character | bohaterka główna postać, filmu, utworu |
| gen. | main character | bohater główna postać, filmu, utworu |
| gen. | marginal character | marginesowość |
| gen. | mechanical character | mechaniczność |
| gen. | mountainous character | górzystość |
| comp., MS | multibyte character set | zestaw znaków wielobajtowych (A mixed-width character set, in which some characters consist of more than 1 byte. An MBCS is used in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, where the 256 possible values of a single-byte character set are not sufficient to represent all possible characters) |
| comp., MS | neutral character | znak neutralny (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| comp., MS | non-printable character | znak niedrukowalny (A character used to control the format of displayed or printed information, rather than to represent a particular letter, digit, or other special character. The space () is one of the more important nonprinting characters) |
| comp., MS | nonprinting character | znak niedrukowalny (A character used to control the format of displayed or printed information, rather than to represent a particular letter, digit, or other special character. The space () is one of the more important nonprinting characters) |
| comp., MS | non-spacing character | znak nierozdzielający (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| telegr. | null character | znak pusty |
| comp., MS | null character | znak null (" A character code with a null value; literally, a character meaning "nothing." Although it is real in the sense of being recognizable, occupying space internally in the computer, and being sent or received as a character, a NUL character displays nothing, takes no space on the screen or on paper, and causes no specific action when sent to a printer. In ASCII, NUL is represented by the character code 0. ") |
| gen. | official character | oficjalność formalność |
| econ. | optical character recognition | optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków |
| comp., MS | optical character recognition line | wiersz optycznego rozpoznawania znaków (A line of characters that is read by special character recognition equipment and translated into computer text) |
| comp., MS | pattern-matching character | symbol wieloznaczny (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| agric. | pedigree characters | cechy zwierząt zarodowych |
| life.sc. | phenotypic character | fenotyp |
| gen. | Polish character or nature | polskość |
| gen. | political character or nature | polityczność |
| comp., MS | precomposed character | znak złożony (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| comp., MS | prefix characters | znaki prefiksu (A set of 1 to 4 bytes that prefix each data field in a native-format bulk-copy data file) |
| biol. | recessive character | cecha recesywna |
| comp., MS | reserved character | znak zastrzeżony (A keyboard character that has a special meaning to a program and, as a result, normally cannot be used in assigning names to files, documents, and other user-generated tools, such as macros. Characters commonly reserved for special uses include the asterisk (*), forward slash (/), backslash (\), question mark (?), and vertical bar (|)) |
| gen. | seedy characters hang around here | po okolicy kręcą się zakazane typki |
| gen. | sensational character | sensacyjność |
| comp., MS | separator character | znak separatora (A character you choose to indicate where you want text to separate when you convert a table to text, or where you want new rows or columns to begin when you convert text to a table) |
| comp., MS | single-byte character set | SBCS (A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters) |
| fin., polit., tax. | small consignment of a non-commercial character | mała partia towarów o charakterze niehandlowym |
| comp., MS | space character | znak spacji (A character that is entered by pressing the SPACEBAR on the keyboard and that typically appears on the screen as a blank space) |
| comp., MS | spacing character | znak rozdzielający (A character with a non-zero width) |
| comp., MS | special character | znak specjalny (A character that is not found on your keyboard and must be inserted from within the software or by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard) |
| agric. | specific character certification | świadectwo szczególnego charakteru |
| agric. | stud characters | cechy zwierząt zarodowych (of animals) |
| telegr. | stuffing character | znak wypełniający |
| telegr. | substitute character | znak zastępczy |
| med. | supporting declaration of good health and good character for admission to a part | zaswiadczenie o dobrym stanie zdrowia i nieposzlakowanej opinii zawodowej |
| comp., MS | tab character | znak tabulatora (A character used to align lines and columns on screen and in print. Although a tab is visually indistinguishable from a series of blank spaces in most programs, the tab character and the space character are different to a computer. A tab is a single character and therefore can be added, deleted, or overtyped with a single keystroke) |
| agric. | taxational character | cecha systematyczna |
| agric. | taxational character | cecha taksonomiczna |
| comp., MS | type-declaration character | znak deklaracji typu (A character appended to a variable name indicating the variable's data type) |
| gen. | unfaltering character | niezłomność |
| gen. | unidirectional character | jednostronność |
| comp., MS | unsafe character | niepewny znak (A character in a URL that may be altered during transport across the Internet) |
| gen. | unsystematic character | niesystematyczność |
| gen. | unusual character | niezwykłość |
| agric. | varietal character | cecha odmianowa |
| comp., MS | white-space character | znak odstępu (" Any characters that can be found between words - this includes space (" "), newline (carriage return in combination with line feed), and the tab character.") |
| comp., MS | wide character | znak dwubajtowy (A 2-byte multilingual character code) |
| comp., MS | wildcard character | symbol wieloznaczny (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
