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Glyph
is always a great word to know.
So is base. Does it mean:
| a low wall forming a base for a construction, as a colonnade or dome; the masonry supporting a classical temple |
| the distinctively treated lowermost portion of any construction such as a monument or exterior wall |
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| glyph (ɡlɪf) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a carved channel or groove, esp a vertical one as used on a Doric frieze |
| 2. | rare another word for hieroglyphic |
| 3. | any computer-generated character regarded in terms of its shape and bit pattern |
| [C18: from French glyphe, from Greek gluphē carving, from gluphein to carve] | |
| 'glyphic | |
| —adj | |
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glyph
1727, from Fr. glyphe (1701), from Gk. glyphe "a carving," from glyphein "to hollow out, engrave, carve" (cognate with L. glubere "to peel, shell," and O.E. cleofan "to cleave").
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Computing Dictionary
glyph definition
characterAn image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs.
In the simple case, for a given font (typeface and size), each character corresponds to a single glyph but this is not always the case, especially in a language with a large alphabet where one character may correspond to several glyphs or several characters to one glyph (a character encoding).
Usually used in reference to outline fonts, in particular TrueType.
(1998-05-31)
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