What (who) is glyphs - definition
ELEMENT OF WRITING
Glyphs; Glpyhs; Glyph (archaeology); Glyph (typography)
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 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)
glyph
[gl?f]
¦ noun
1. a pictograph or sculptured symbol; a hieroglyph.
2. Architecture an ornamental carved groove or channel, as on a Greek frieze.
3. Computing a small graphic symbol.
Derivatives
glyphic adjective
Origin
C18: from Fr. glyphe, from Gk gluphe 'carving'.
Glyph
·noun A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. ·see Triglyph.
II. Glyph ·add. ·noun 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.
Wikipedia
Glyph
A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A grapheme, or part of a grapheme (such as a diacritic), or sometimes several graphemes in combination (a composed glyph) can be represented by a glyph.
Pronunciation examples for glyphs
1. and undefined pictographic glyphs.
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2. And it's these glyphs here.
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3. logos and the incomprehensible laundry glyphs,
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4. We're returning to emojis, returning to glyphs.
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5. when anthropologists realized
that the glyphs represented
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Examples of use of glyphs
1. The text contains 28 distinct glyphs or symbols, some of which are repeated three and four times.
2. The murals are accompanied by archaic Mayan writing as sophisticated as later classic glyphs that have been deciphered, but "the pre–classic is a different system," said archaeologist Richard D.
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