glyph

4 definitions found

glyph - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Glyph \Glyph\ (gl[i^]f), n. [Gr. glyfh` carving, fr. gly`fein to
     carve: cf. F. glyphe. Cf. Cleave to split.]
     1. (Arch.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See
        Triglyph.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

glyph - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  glyph
      n 1: glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or
           incised in relief

glyph - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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 - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "glyph":
     anaglyph, bas-relief, boss, cameo, cameo glass, cavo-rilievo,
     cut glass, embossment, glyptograph, high relief, intaglio,
     intaglio rilevato, intaglio rilievo, low relief, mask, medal,
     medallion, plaquette, relief, relievo, sculptured glass