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line-height

line-height noun: the height of a line of text.

Noun

line-height (plural line-heights)

  1. The height of a line of text.
    • Therefore, you could give an inline nonreplaced element a line-height of 1em and still have its background overlap the content of other lines.2006, Eric Meyer, CSS: The Definitive Guide, page 194

Forms of line-height

pluralline-heights

Questions about line-height

What does line-height mean?
Line-height means the height of a line of text.
What part of speech is line-height?
Line-height is a noun.
What is the plural of line-height?
The plural of line-height is line-heights.

Words near line-height in the dictionary

  1. line-drying
  2. line-edit
  3. line-edited
  4. line-editing
  5. line-edits
  6. line-height
  7. line-heights
  8. line-item veto
  9. line-item vetoes
  10. line-item vetos
  11. line-loin merger

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