Dictionary

halfwidth en · ADJ

Etymology

From half + width.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.
   • ...and half-width (zenkaku, hankaku) alphabets are regarded as separate... 1998, Rick Jelliffe, The XML & SGML Cookbook:
   • The half-width characters have normal character spacing... 2002, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2:
   • This would convert any half-width katakana characters to full-width katakana. 1993, GO Corporation, Penpoint Application Writing Guide:

Forms

Translations (9)

pt de meia largura (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · fi puolilevyinen (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · it a metà larghezza (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · ru полушири́нный (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · cmn 半角 (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · fr demi-chasse (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · ja 半角 (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · ko 반각 (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character) · cmn 半形 (occupying half the width of a fullwidth character)

halfwidth en · NOUN

Etymology

From half + width.

Meanings

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

Forms