имя существительное 1) [архитектура] глиф 2) рельефно вырезанный знак, символ
1) глиф, визуальное представление, образ, графический элемент 2) печатное изображение символа шрифта конкретное графическое представление отдельной буквы или символа - две одинаковые буквы в разных шрифтах будут различаться по виду
[полиграфия] специальный наборный знак, хранящийся в памяти в цифровом виде
noun Etymology: Greek glyphē carved work, from glyphein to carve — more at cleave 1. an ornamental vertical groove especially in a Doric frieze 2. a symbolic figure or a character (as in the Mayan system of writing) usually incised or carved in relief 3. a symbol (as a curved arrow on a road sign) that conveys information nonverbally • glyphic adjective
An image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs. In the simple case, for a given font (typeface and size), each character corresponds to a single glyph but this is not always the case, especially in a language with a large alphabet where one character may correspond to several glyphs or several characters to one glyph (a character encoding). Usually used in reference to outline fonts, in particular TrueType.