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subfont

noun

Etymology

From sub- + font.

  1. derived from fundō
  2. derived from *fundita✻
  3. derived from *ǵʰewd-✻ — “to pour”
  4. derived from fundere
  5. derived from fondre
  6. derived from fonte — “act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”
  7. prefixed as subfont — “sub + font”

Definitions

  1. A subset of a font, holding only some of its glyphs.

    • Two subfonts are available for EGA/VGA displays, and only one is available for LCD displays.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subfont. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA