kern

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.3 Derived terms 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɜː(ɹ)n/, SAMPA: /k3:(r)n/

  Rhymes: -ɜːrn

[edit] Etymology 1

Wikipedia

• from Middle Irish ceithern

[edit] Noun

kern (plural kerns)

1. A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; often used as a term of contempt.

   Quotation

   • c.1599: "O, then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your strait strossers." — Henry V: Ac.3 Sc7, Wm. Shakespeare.

[edit] Etymology 2

Wikipedia

French carne corner, from French dialect, from Latin cardin-, cardo hinge

[edit] Noun

kern (plural kerns)

1. (hot metal printing, typography) any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.

[edit] Verb

to kern (third-person singular simple present kerns, present participle kerning, simple past and past participle kerned)

1. (transitive, typography) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs), particularly in a proportional font (printing).
2. (intransitive, typography) To perform a kerning adjustment.

[edit] Derived terms

• kerning

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

kern f. and m. (plural kernen)

1. nucleus, core
2. (physics) nucleus (of an atom)
3. (geology) core (of the Earth)