characters per inch (English, noun)
expansion: characters per inch pl (plural only, abbreviation cpi)
Senses:
topics: arts
design
media
publishing
typography
glosses: A unit of measurement of the number of typographic characters that fit on a one inch line of printed type. This unit is mainly used to specify font sizes that have the same width for each character (monospaced), however it may also be used to give an average for fonts with characters of varying widths.
tags: plural
plural-only
qualifier: electronic media
glosses: A unit of measurement of the number of characters per inch ("linear packing density") when storing data on certain types of magnetic media or tape, used to measure storage density that the encoding medium possesses.
tags: plural
plural-only
Forms:
form: cpi
tags: abbreviation