halfwidth

English

Alternative forms

• half-width

Adjective

halfwidth (not comparable)

A Korean command prompt (cmd.exe) showing halfwidth and fullwidth characters.

1. (computing, typography) (of certain characters) Being a physically narrower glyph, as opposed to fullwidth.
   • 1993, GO Corporation, Penpoint Application Writing Guide

     This would convert any half-width katakana characters to full-width katakana.

   • 1998, Rick Jelliffe, The XML & SGML Cookbook

     ...and half-width (zenkaku, hankaku) alphabets are regarded as separate...

   • 2002, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2

     The half-width characters have normal character spacing...

Noun

halfwidth (plural halfwidths)

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