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English Dictionary: font	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for font
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
font n a specific size and style of type within a type family Synonym(s): font, fount, typeface, face, case bowl for baptismal water Synonym(s): baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, font
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Font \Font\, n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See {Found} to cast, and cf. {Fount} a font.] (Print.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Font \Font\, n. [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See {Fount}.] 1. A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. --Young. 2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. That name was given me at the font. --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
font A set of {glyphs} ({images}) representing the {characters} from some particular {character set} in a particular size and {typeface}. The image of each character may be encoded either as a {bitmap} (in a {bitmap font}) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an {outline font}). There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are {Adobe Systems, Inc.}'s {PostScript} font definitions and {Apple}'s {TrueType}. {Window systems} can display different fonts on the screen and print them. [Other types of font?] (2001-04-27)