Atmospheric science students are taught weather is what you get and climate is the weather you expect. This is why this common skeptical argument doesn't hold water. Climate models are not predicting day to day weather systems. Instead, they are predicting climate averages.
Medical Definition of character. 1  1: one of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish the individual. 2  2: the detectable expression of the action of a gene or group of genes. 3  3: the complex of mental and ethical traits marking and often individualizing a person, group, or nation.
The function takes two character arrays (strings) as arguments and returns a pointer to the shorter of the two strings. A pointer to an array points to the first of the array elements and has its type; thus, the return type of the function is a pointer to type char.