Text facts for kids

Text may mean:

Writing

• a piece of writing
• Textual criticism, the study of changes in books or manuscripts.
• Text message

Books

• a book, a set of printed sheets of paper held together between two covers.
• a textbook, a book used for the study of a subject. People use a textbook to learn facts and methods about a certain subject.
• Subtext
• e-text or e-book

Unit Of Study

• hermeneutics
• philology, the study of language in historical writings
• literary theory, anything with a semiotic component
• cultural studies, the unit of discourse

Computing

• character (computing) or string data, as opposed to binary data
• a text segment of a program in memory
• Plaintext, the information which the sender want to transmit to the receiver(s)
• Text-based, comprised of characters
• Boilerplate text

Other

• TEXT, an avant-garde band

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