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sidebearing

sidebearing noun: the margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box.

Noun

sidebearing (plural sidebearings)

  1. The margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box

Forms of sidebearing

pluralsidebearings

Origin of sidebearing

From side + bearing.

Questions about sidebearing

What does sidebearing mean?
Sidebearing means the margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box.
What part of speech is sidebearing?
Sidebearing is a noun.
What is the plural of sidebearing?
The plural of sidebearing is sidebearings.

Words near sidebearing in the dictionary

  1. sidebar comment
  2. sidebar comments
  3. sidebarred
  4. sidebarring
  5. sidebars
  6. sidebearing
  7. sidebearings
  8. sidebitch
  9. sidebitches
  10. sideblade
  11. sideblades

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