white space
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[edit] Etymology
Via English printing and typing terminology, from Old English hwīt + spaces
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white space (plural white spaces)
- 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).
- (computer science) Any single character or series of characters that represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.
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- (computer science) whitespace character
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white area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page
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single character or series of characters
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[edit] See also
Punctuation
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