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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glyph \Glyph\, n. (Arch[ae]ol.) 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glyph \Glyph\ (gl[i^]f), n. [Gr. glyfh` carving, fr gly`fein to carve: cf F. glyphe. Cf {Cleave} to split.] (Arch.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See {Triglyph}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: glyph n : a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: glyphAn {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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