constant-width font
- noun
- Specialized
:
fuente de ancho constante
- When programming, it's best to use a constant-width font to align your code clearly.
Examples
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The report was printed using a constant-width font for easy tabulation of numbers.
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Many email clients allow you to switch to a constant-width font for reading plain text messages.
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I prefer using a constant-width font for coding.
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The text editor supports constant-width fonts for better alignment.
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Many email clients allow you to switch to a constant-width font for reading plain text messages.
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The report was printed using a constant-width font for easy tabulation of numbers.
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When programming, it's best to use a constant-width font to align your code clearly.
Synonyms
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4.0
A set of letters where each one has the same width so columns line up
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5.8
A font where every character has the same width
A style where every letter has the same width, like in typewriters
A print style where each letter takes the same space, like an old typewriter
How Monospaced
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
constant-width + font
The phrase transparently combines 'constant' (unchanging) and 'width' (horizontal measure) with 'font' (type design), so a learner who knows those words can infer a font whose characters occupy the same horizontal space. This is a regular, compositional compound following standard English morphology and is cross-linguistically obvious, making the meaning predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun constant-width font comes from old typewriters and early computers where every letter and symbol took the same horizontal space. Imagine each character as an equal box in a row so columns always line up, and that's why a constant-width font is used to make 'columns' and 'code' 'align' neatly.