Definition of glyph. Meaning of glyph. Synonyms of glyph

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Definition of glyph

Glyph
Glyph Glyph, n. (Arch[ae]ol.) A carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted.
Glyph
Glyph Glyph (gl[i^]f), n. [Gr. glyfh` carving, fr. gly`fein to carve: cf. F. glyphe. Cf. Cleave to split.] (Arch.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Meaning of glyph from wikipedia

- Look up glyph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This page uses orthographic and related notations. For the notations ⟨ ⟩, / / and [ ]  used in this...
- up glyph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A glyph is a type of mark. Glyph may also refer to: Glyph (Transformers), a fictional character Glyph (album)...
- marks, boxes, or other symbols. In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arra**** within an imaginary circle. A commonly used...
- same symbol for 1 and 60 as in the Sumerian system. The most commonly used glyph in the modern Western world to represent the number 1 is the Arabic numeral...
- Water glyphs are a recurring type of petroglyph found across the American southwest, but primarily in southern Utah, northern Arizona, and Nevada. The...
- Cymatics (from Ancient Gr****: κῦμα, romanized: kŷma, lit. 'wave') is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Swiss physician Hans...
- The Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) by Adobe is a file format for storing bitmap fonts. The content takes the form of a text file intended to be...
- represented with a glyph more like the representative glyph shown for U+03C6 (φ, the "loopy" or "open" form), and less often with a glyph more like the representative...
- Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican...
- quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different...