"characters per inch" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cpi [abbreviation]
Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} characters per inch pl (plural only)
  1. (design, typography) A unit of measurement of the number of typographic characters that fit on a one inch line of printed type. This unit is mainly used to specify font sizes that have the same width for each character (monospaced), however it may also be used to give an average for fonts with characters of varying widths. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Design, Typography, Units of measure
    Sense id: en-characters_per_inch-en-noun-gsKwYQit Disambiguation of Units of measure: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 45 55 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48 Topics: arts, design, media, publishing, typography
  2. (electronic media) A unit of measurement of the number of characters per inch ("linear packing density") when storing data on certain types of magnetic media or tape, used to measure storage density that the encoding medium possesses. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Units of measure Related terms: dpi, ppi, pitch
    Sense id: en-characters_per_inch-en-noun-U6ecq2JP Disambiguation of Units of measure: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 45 55 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48

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