halfwidth
nounEtymology From half + width.
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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The width of a spectroscopic peak at half its height.
halfwidth
adjEtymology From half + width.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Media, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Publishing, Sciences, Typography Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.
- This would convert any half-width katakana characters to full-width katakana.1993, GO Corporation, Penpoint Application Writing Guide:
- ...and half-width (zenkaku, hankaku) alphabets are regarded as separate...1998, Rick Jelliffe, The XML & SGML Cookbook:
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- The half-width characters have normal character spacing...2002, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: