character generator

American  

noun

Television.

1. a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.

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Example Sentences

She’s surrounded by partners and associates whose magnificently inane names sound like they were pulled from an Aaron Spelling character generator.

From Salon

The game’s character generator allows players to create a character with attributes of any gender, and the game is populated with a diverse cast.

From Los Angeles Times

Multiple potential recruits had palette swapped missions to get them to join my team, and even the limits of Ubisoft’s character generator were apparent, with several of my potential characters looking oddly similar to each other.

From The Verge

Theatre, are so colorful, argumentative and profane that they suggest the existence, and possibly the overuse, of some sort of David Mamet character generator app.

From Los Angeles Times

Next, after studying tapes of Captain Midnight's message, investigators pinpointed the make and model of the character generator used; only about 100 sites had that piece of equipment.

From Time Magazine Archive