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rekerning

rekerning is the present participle and gerund of rekern.

Meaning of rekern

Verb

rekern (third-person singular simple present rekerns, present participle rekerning, simple past and past participle rekerned)

  1. (transitive) To kern again.
    • Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line.1996, Bruce Page, Diana Holm, Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF, page 227

Questions about rekerning

What is rekerning the present participle and gerund of?
Rekerning is the present participle and gerund of rekern.

Words near rekerning in the dictionary

  1. rejuves
  2. rejuvinate
  3. rejón
  4. rekern
  5. rekerned
  6. rekerning
  7. rekerns
  8. reketonization
  9. rekey
  10. rekeyboard
  11. rekeyboarded

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