"column inch" meaning in English

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          "name": "Printing",
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          "name": "Units of measure",
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          "ref": "1877, Pettengill's newspaper directory and advertisers' hand-book for 1877, page 87",
          "text": "... advertisements, $40 per column inch per year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 517",
          "text": "One mass-circulation Sunday newspaper recently devoted several column inches to an unnecessary weekend working from Stratford to the Essex coast to provide empty stock for an up service that had ceased its high summer running the previous Saturday.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62",
          "text": "Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.",
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        "One inch of a printed column; a measure of space allocated."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing) One inch of a printed column; a measure of space allocated."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "news hole"
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        "printing",
        "publishing"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "in millimeters",
          "sense": "measure of space on a newspaper",
          "word": "palstamillimetri"
        }
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        "column inch"
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      "word": "news hole"
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          "ref": "1877, Pettengill's newspaper directory and advertisers' hand-book for 1877, page 87",
          "text": "... advertisements, $40 per column inch per year.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 517",
          "text": "One mass-circulation Sunday newspaper recently devoted several column inches to an unnecessary weekend working from Stratford to the Essex coast to provide empty stock for an up service that had ceased its high summer running the previous Saturday.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62",
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        }
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        "(printing) One inch of a printed column; a measure of space allocated."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "in millimeters",
      "sense": "measure of space on a newspaper",
      "word": "palstamillimetri"
    }
  ],
  "word": "column inch"
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