thin space

短语

词形变化

thin spaces 复数 thin spaces

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A metal block used to separate words, one fifth of an em in width.

    媒体 印刷
  2. 2.

    In digital text, a character representing a thin space.

    媒体 印刷

    All you may see on the keyboard is a space bar, but typographers use several invisible characters: the word space, fixed spaces of various sizes (em space, en space, thin space, figure space, etc) and a hard space or no-break space.

词源

From thin + space. First use appears c. 1683 in the writings of Joseph Moxon.

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