white space

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Alternative spellings 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Related terms 1.4.3 Translations 1.5 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: wīt???, IPA: /waɪtspeɪs/, SAMPA: /waIt???/
• Homophones: wight

• enPR: hwīt, IPA: /ʍaɪt/, SAMPA: /WaIt/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪs, -aɪt

[edit] Etymology

Via English printing and typing terminology, from Old English hwīt + spaces

[edit] Alternative spellings

• whitespace

[edit] Noun

white space (plural white spaces)

1. White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
2. (computer science) Any single character or series of characters that represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.

[edit] Synonyms

• (computer science) whitespace character

[edit] Related terms

• negative space

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Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )