fonte — meaning in English

English meaning

• font noun A set of letters and characters sharing one consistent design, style, and weight, used in printing or on a screen.
• smelting noun The process of heating ore to extract pure metal from it.

Senses

fonte is used for these senses in English:

• cast iron A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.
• font In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
• smelting (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.

font — full definition

1. noun A set of letters and characters sharing one consistent design, style, and weight, used in printing or on a screen.
2. noun A basin in a church that holds water used for baptism.
3. noun A source or origin of something, especially knowledge (literary).

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