ALL meanings of glyph
glyph
G g - noun glyph a pictograph or hieroglyph. 1
- noun glyph a sculptured figure or relief carving. 1
- noun glyph Architecture. an ornamental channel or groove. 1
- noun glyph A hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph. 1
- noun Technical meaning of glyph (character) An image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs. In the simple case, for a given font (typeface and size), each character corresponds to a single glyph but this is not always the case, especially in a language with a large alphabet where one character may correspond to several glyphs or several characters to one glyph (a character encoding). Usually used in reference to outline fonts, in particular TrueType. 1
- noun glyph A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. 0
- noun glyph Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information. 0
- noun glyph (typography, computing) A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style. 0
- noun glyph (architecture) A vertical groove. 0
- noun glyph a carved channel or groove, esp a vertical one as used on a Doric frieze 0
- noun glyph any computer-generated character regarded in terms of its shape and bit pattern 0
- noun glyph a pictograph or other symbolic character or sign, esp. when cut into a surface or carved in relief 0
- noun glyph a vertical channel or groove 0