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Kern  (kûrn), Jerome David 1885-1945.
American composer of numerous musicals, including Show Boat (1927), and more than a thousand songs, such as "Ol' Man River" and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."

kern 1 also kerne  (kûrn)
n.
1. A medieval Scottish or Irish foot soldier.
2. A loutish person.

[Middle English kerne, from Middle Irish ceithern, ceithernn, band of soldiers, from Old Irish.]

kern 2  (kûrn) Printing
n.
The portion of a typeface that projects beyond the body or shank of a character.
tr.v. kerned, kern·ing, kerns
1. To provide (type) with a kern.
2. To adjust space between (characters) in typeset text.

[French carne, corner, from Old North French, from Latin card, cardin-, hinge.]

kerning
adj [ˈkɜːnɪŋ]
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing the adjustment of space between the letters of words to improve the appearance of text matter
Translations
kerning
n (Typ, Comput) → Unterschneidung f, → Kerning nt; automatic pair kerningautomatischer Abstand


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Whereas the previous novel tweaked normative grammar through a kind of search-and-replace method of verbal substitution (in the voice of its Ukrainian narrator, "difficult" became "rigid," "to bother" became "to spleen"), this one expands the field of experimentation to include manipulations of kerning and spacing, and the insertion of playful graphics and photography into the body of the text.
The patient continued febrile, diplopia disappeared, and meningeal signs progressed with frank cervical stiffness, positive Kerning sign, and photophobia.
 
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