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See text Acanthus is both a common name and a genus of flowering plant in the Family Acanthaceae. In Europe an Acanthus is a plant (also called Bear's breeches) of this genus native to the Mediterranean region and characterized by large spiny leaves and flower spikes bearing white or purplish flowers. Several species (especially A. spinosa and A. mollis) are widely cultivated perennial ornamentals (see horticulture), and it has long been used ...

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Amaranthoideae Chenopodioideae Gomphrenoideae Salicornioideae Salsoloideae The family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, is a taxon of dicotyledon flowering plants included among the Caryophyllales and containing about 160 genera and 2,400 species. Most of these species are herbs or subshrubs; very few are trees or climbers. This is a widespread and cosmopolitan family found mostly in subtropical and tropical regions, yet a few species are native to cool temperate regions. Most species occ ...

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• Amaranthaceae - Reference

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See text Typha is a genus of about ten species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the monogeneric family, Typhaceae. The genus has a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution, but is essentially cosmopolitan. These plants are known as bulrush or bullrush (mainly in British English), cattail (mainly in American English), or in some older British texts as reedmace. Cattails or bulrushes are wetland plants, typically 1 to 3 m tall (T. minima is smaller: 0.5-1 m), with spo ...

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Subfamily Siphonochiloideae  Tribe Siphonochileae   Siphonochilus Subfamily Tamijioideae  Tribe Tamijieae   Tamijia Subfamily Alpinioideae  Tribe Alpinieae   Aframomum   Alpinia - galangal   Amomum   Aulotandra   Cyphostigma   Elettaria - cardamom  Elettariopsis   Etlingera   Geocharis   Geostachys  
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• Zingiberaceae - Characteristics
• Zingiberaceae - Distribution

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In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i.e., character) designs. A typeface is usually comprised of an alphabet of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks. Helvetica, Century Schoolbook, and Courier are three examples of typefaces. A typeface may also include or consist of ideograms and symbols (e.g., mathematical or map-making glyphs). The art of designing typefaces, called typ ...

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• Typeface - Proportionality
• Typeface - Measurements
• Typeface - Types of font
• Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces
• Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces
• Typeface - Organizations

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A font, from Middle French fonte, meaning "(something that has been) melt(ed) [akin to Fondue]" and referring to letters of a typeface produced by casting molten metal at a type foundry, consists of a set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from a particular character set in a particular typeface. Historically, fonts came in specific sizes (governing the actual height of the characters), and in sorts (governing the quantities of each letter provided). The design of a given character in a font took into account ...

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Typeface, Typeface - History, Typeface - Typeface anatomy, Typeface - Serifs, Typeface - Proportionality, Typeface - Measurements, Typeface - Types of font, Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces, Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces, Typeface - Organizations

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The plant is either self-supporting or epiphytic. They have alternate and distichous leaves; there is neither basal nor terminal aggregations of leaves. Flowers are hermaphroditic, strongly zygomatic and form in bracts such as racemes and spikes. Flowers typically have labellums, an organ formed by the fusion of two sterile stamens. The perianth is comprised of 2 whorls. The calyx is herbaceous or membranous, 3-lobed or spathaceous tubular. The plant' ...

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Zingiberaceae, Zingiberaceae - Characteristics, Zingiberaceae - Distribution

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Radiation hardening - Fundamental mechanisms. Two fundamental damage mechanisms take place: Lattice displacement, caused by neutrons, protons, alpha particles, heavy ions, and very high energy gamma photons. They change the arrangement of the atoms in the lattice, creating lasting damage, and increasing the number of recombination centers, depleting the minority carriers and worsening the analog properties of the affected semiconductor junctions. Counterintuitively, higher doses over short tim ...

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A font, from Middle French fonte, meaning "(something that has been) melt(ed)" and referring to letters of a typeface produced by casting molten metal at a type foundry, consists of a set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from a particular character set in a particular typeface. Historically, fonts came in specific sizes (governing the actual height of the characters), and in sorts (governing the quantities of each letter provided). The design of a given character in a font took into account all these factors. In a ...

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Typeface, Typeface - History, Typeface - Typeface anatomy, Typeface - Serifs, Typeface - Proportionality, Typeface - Measurements, Typeface - Types of font, Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces, Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces, Typeface - Organizations

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Typographers have derived a comprehensive vocabulary for describing and discussing the appearances of typefaces. Some vocabulary applies only to a subset of all scripts. Typeface - Serifs. One can sub-divide fonts into two main categories: those of serif and sans-serif fonts. Serifs comprise the small features at the end of strokes within letters. The printing industry refers to typeface without serifs as sans-serif (from French sans: "without"), or as g ...

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Typeface, Typeface - History, Typeface - Typeface anatomy, Typeface - Serifs, Typeface - Proportionality, Typeface - Measurements, Typeface - Types of font, Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces, Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces, Typeface - Organizations

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Typographers have derived a comprehensive vocabulary for describing and discussing the appearances of typefaces. Some vocabulary applies only to a subset of all scripts. Typeface - Serifs. One can sub-divide fonts into two main categories: those of serif and sans-serif fonts. Serifs comprise the small features at the end of strokes within letters. The printing industry refers to typeface without serifs as sans-serif (from French sans: "without"), or as grotesque (or, in German, gr ...

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Typeface, Typeface - History, Typeface - Typeface anatomy, Typeface - Serifs, Typeface - Proportionality, Typeface - Measurements, Typeface - Types of font, Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces, Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces, Typeface - Organizations

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United States law does not permit the copyrighting of typeface designs, while allowing the patenting of unusually novel designs. Digital fonts that embody a particular design often become copyrightable as computer programs. The names of the typefaces can become trademarked. As a result of these various means of legal protection, sometimes the same typeface exists in multiple names and implementations. Some elements of the software engines used to display typefaces on computers have software patents associated with them. In particular, ...

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Since a plethora of typefaces has been created over the centuries, they are commonly categorized according to their appearance. At the highest level, one can differentiate between serif, sans-serif, script, blackletter, novelty, pi and symbol fonts. Historically, the first fonts were blackletter, followed by serif, then sans-serif and the other types of font. Serif, or "roman", typefaces are named for the features at the ends of their strokes. Times Roman and Garamond are common ...

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Typeface, Typeface - History, Typeface - Typeface anatomy, Typeface - Serifs, Typeface - Proportionality, Typeface - Measurements, Typeface - Types of font, Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces, Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces, Typeface - Organizations

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