halfwidth

Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.

Adjective

  1. Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.
    • This would convert any half-width katakana characters to full-width katakana. - 1993, GO Corporation, Penpoint Application Writing Guide:
    • ...and half-width (zenkaku, hankaku) alphabets are regarded as separate... - 1998, Rick Jelliffe, The XML & SGML Cookbook:
    • The half-width characters have normal character spacing... - 2002, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2:

Origin

From half + width.

Forms

half-width

Noun

  1. The width of a spectroscopic peak at half its height.

Forms

halfwidths half-width