ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Halfwidth

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Halfwidth is an adjective meaning (computing, typography) Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.

Meaning

(computing, typography) Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.

More Meanings

  1. (chemistry) The width of a spectroscopic peak at half its height.

Example Sentences

The half-width characters have normal character spacing.
...and half-width (zenkaku, hankaku) alphabets are regarded as separate.
This would convert any half-width katakana characters to full-width katakana.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include half-width, fullwidth, monospace, double-spaced, type-high, justified.

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