| 单词 | en rule |
| 释义 | > as lemmasen rule The half square, formerly of the type n, used as a unit for measuring the amount of printed matter in a line, page, etc. Also attributive, esp. in en quad, en quadrat, a block of metal half the width of the em quad at em n. (see also quot. 1967); en rule, a dash of the width of an en. Cf. N n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > others Bc1000 Dc1000 ellc1000 Fc1000 Sc1000 yogha1300 Pa1398 ess1540 tee1610 alif1727 cue1755 em1793 en1793 dee1795 double U1841 edh1846 wye1857 vee1883 gee1926 nut1940 kay1959 at sign1977 society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > units of space in printing M1683 n quadrat1683 em1793 en1793 1793 in Stower Printer's Gram. (1808) xvii. 419 That em and en quadrats..be included. 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. xvii. 419 The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends of the lines not to be reckoned in the width. 1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 32 En dash.—A dash..half the length of the em of the fount to which it belongs. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 11/2 The ‘justifier’..spaces out the lines with great regularity and in so short a time that 20,000 ens per hour is about the average output. 1891 Printers' Register 7 Dec. 49,000 American ems, equal to 98,000 English ens. 1893 H. Hart Rules for Compositors 21 En rules are to be used in such cases as 1880–1, and not hyphens or em rules. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 204/1 En quads, spaces exactly half of an em. 1921 Glasgow Herald 22 Feb. 10 The first scale paid to linotype operators was 3d. per thousand ‘ens’. 1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset ii. 12 Quads and spaces are the separation material used between letters and words. The em quad is the square of a given body size; the en quad is half the square width. < as lemmas |
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