Look up: glyph

1. Glyph
   In architecture a glyph is a sunken channel or groove, usually vertical.
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2. Glyph
   A design depicting a principle or concept. In astrology, a particular graphical representation allocated to each sign of the zodiac and the planets, which relates to an animal, planet or something similar.
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3. glyph
   A shape in a font that is used to represent a character code on screen or paper. The most common example of a glyph is a letter, but the symbols and shapes in a dingbats font are also glyphs.
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4. glyph
   [n] - glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief
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5. glyph
   a) a recognisable shape that conveys meaning to a human brain; b) a set of instructions to the production process to make a particular character image shape specification on an image carrier intended for a particular kind of marking device Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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6. Glyph
   Glyph (glĭf) noun [ Greek glyfh` carving, from gly`fein to carve: confer French glyphe . Confer Cleave to split.] (Architecture) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph .
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7. Glyph
   Glyph noun (Archæol.) A carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted.
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8. glyph
   noun glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief
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9. Glyph
   • (n.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph. • (n.) A carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted.
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10. glyph
    glyph 1. A sculptured mark or symbol. 2. In architecture, a groove or channel, usually vertical, used as an ornament; especially, in a Doric frieze. 3. A carved figure or character in relief.
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11. glyph
    The actual shape (bit pattern, outline) of a character image. For example, an italic 'A' and a roman 'A' are two different glyphs representing the same underlying character. Strictly speaking, any two images that differ in shape constitute different glyphs. In this usage, glyph is a synonym for character image, or simply image.
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12. Glyph
    Every character in a typeface, (e.g: G, $, ?, and 7), is represented by a glyph. One single type design may contain more than one glyph for each character. These are usually referred to as alternates.
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13. glyph
    (character) An 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 ...
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14. Glyph
    A `glyph` () is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. A grapheme is made up of one or more `glyphs`. For example, in most languages written in any variety of the Latin alphabet the dot on a lower-case "i" is not a ...
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15. Glyph
    (album) `Glyph` is an album released by Floater in May 1995. Engineered and mixed by the Grammy-nominated Drew Canulette (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Neil Young).<ref name="AMG"> | accessdate =2010-06-26 -->--> Glyph received a preliminary Grammy nomination in the categor...
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16. Glyph
    (Transformers) `Glyph` is the name of two fictional characters from the Transformers toy and comic book line. They are both female Autobot scientists. Transformers: Universe: Glyph is a female Autobot and scientist. 3H Enterprises: Glyph is a female Autobot who was dispatched aboard a vessel ...
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17. Glyph
    (data visualization) : in three-dimensional phase space a fourth scalar variable is visualized by use of coloured glyphs. A `glyph` is a marker – as for example an arrow or similar image – used for data visualization, and more specific for scientific visualization. References: -->
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