property
Characteristic of an object. In many programming languages, including Visual Basic, the term property>/I> is used to describe attributes associated with a data structure.
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)A font in which different characters have different pitches (widths). Proportional fonts are also called proportional-pitch fonts. The opposite of a proportional font is a fixed-pitch font.
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)Using different widths for different characters. In a proportionally spaced font, the letter I is narrower than the letter q and the letter m wider. This book uses a proportionally spaced font, as do most books, magazines, and newspapers. The opposite of proportional spacing is monospacing. In a monospaced font, each character has the same […]
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