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homoglyphic

homoglyphic adjective: being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).

Adjective

homoglyphic (not comparable)

  1. Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).
    • Most of these errors apparently result from homoglyphic confusion, but it is hard to tell which mistakes are due to the scribes and which are due to the publishers' conservative or oblivious editing.2016, Andrea Acri, Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia, →ISBN, page 40
    • [...] homoglyphic attacks, such as creating a domain name that looks like oreilly.com but uses a Cyrillic О; see Chapter 12 for more information on this.2017, Michael Collins, Network Security Through Data Analysis: From Data to Action, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 182

Origin of homoglyphic

From homoglyph + -ic.

Words formed from homoglyphic

Questions about homoglyphic

What does homoglyphic mean?
Homoglyphic means being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).
What part of speech is homoglyphic?
Homoglyphic is an adjective.

Words near homoglyphic in the dictionary

  1. homoglucans
  2. homoglutathione
  3. homoglycan
  4. homoglycans
  5. homoglyph
  6. homoglyphic
  7. homoglyphically
  8. homoglyphs
  9. homoglyphy
  10. Homogocene
  11. homogonic

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