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Definition of 'glyph'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) glyph
a pictograph or hieroglyph.

2.  glyph
a sculptured figure or relief carving.

3.  glyph
an ornamental vertical channel or groove, esp. in Doric architecture.

4.  glyph
any symbol bearing information nonverbally, as a crossed-out cigarette on a no-smoking sign.

Etymology: (1720–30; < Gk glyph(ē) carving, der. of glýphein to hollow out)

Definition of 'glyph'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) glyph
glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief

Definition of 'glyph'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) glyph
a sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph

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