letterwise

English

Etymology

letter +‎ -wise

Adjective

letterwise (not comparable)

1. In terms of letters of the alphabet.
   • 1994, Marilyn Jager Adams, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print, page 105:

     Skillful readers' processing of text seems far too fast and efficient to be based on letterwise processing of its print.

   • 2008, Joachim Biskup, Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and Solutions, page 410:

     […] an encryption algorithm with multiple usage of a secret key for the letterwise encryption of prefixes […]