Word: Kern
How to pronounce: kɜːn
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Adjust the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of text to be printed.
Example sentences: "Please kern the double underscores in the code below"
2. Design (metal type) with a projecting part beyond the body or shank.
Noun
Definitions:
1. The part of a metal type projecting beyond its body or shank.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A light-armed Irish foot soldier.
Example sentences: "Composition involved, in Gaelic parts, the commutation of the chief's right to take up supplies for his household and quarter his kerne and galloglass on his subjects for defence."
2. A peasant; a rustic.
Synonyms:
core sample
kernel
Derivations:
kerne
kerning
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Spanish:
German: Kerning
French: Kern
Italian: Crenatura
Turkish:
