Definition of Glyph. Meaning of Glyph. Synonyms of Glyph

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Definition of Glyph

Glyph
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.
Glyph
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.

Meaning of Glyph from wikipedia

- Look up glyph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |...
- up glyph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A glyph is a type of mark. Glyph may also refer to: Glyph (Transformers), a fictional character Glyph (album)...
- marks, boxes, or other symbols. In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arra**** within an imaginary circle. A commonly used...
- Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican...
- quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different...
- 'sacred') and γλύφω (glýphō '(Ι) carve, engrave'; see glyph) meaning sacred carving. The glyphs themselves, since the Ptolemaic period, were called τὰ...
- The Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) by Adobe is a file format for storing bitmap fonts. The content takes the form of a text file intended to be...
- upon ten glyphs representing the numbers from zero to nine, and allows representing any natural number by a unique sequence of these glyphs. The symbols...
- glyph might be used for both. ∑: U+2211 'n-ary summation' is not the same character as U+03A3 'Gr**** capital letter Sigma' though the same glyph might...
- depicted by a set of glyphs that mayanists coined glyphs D and E: A new moon glyph was used for day zero in the lunar cycle. D glyphs were used for lunar...