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grapheme clusters

grapheme clusters is the plural of grapheme cluster.

Meaning of grapheme cluster

Noun

grapheme cluster (plural grapheme clusters)

  1. (Unicode) A combination of code points representing a single graphical unit.
    • First, a bit of jargon: a grapheme cluster is a generalization of the notion of combining characters. A character is in itself a grapheme cluster. When we apply non-spacing or enclosing combining characters to it, we extend the cluster.2007, Yannis Haralambous, Fonts & Encodings, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 117

Questions about grapheme clusters

What is grapheme clusters the plural of?
Grapheme clusters is the plural of grapheme cluster.

Words near grapheme clusters in the dictionary

  1. graphed
  2. graphematic
  3. graphematics
  4. grapheme
  5. grapheme cluster
  6. grapheme clusters
  7. grapheme-color
  8. grapheme-phoneme correspondence
  9. grapheme-phoneme correspondences
  10. grapheme-to-phoneme
  11. graphemes

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