Glossary for Geospatial Science

  Technical vocabulary defined by MicroImages


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segment:� A segment is a line or polygon that forms part or all of a glyph.� A glyph made from polygons will be filled when printed but may optionally be displayed in outline form.� A glyph made of line segments rather than polygons is known as a stroke font.� It is faster for the computer to draw a stroke font than a font made of polygons.�