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x-height

/eks-hahyt/US // ˈɛksˌhaɪt //

X高度

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Typography.

    • : the height of a lowercase x.

Examples

  • This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.

  • During the height of his disenchantment, he visited his hometown where an old friend gave him some liquid acid.

  • An x-ray two hours later confirms my hunch: my tibia (the big bone behind the shin) is snapped clean in two.

  • “Getting out of X band is on option,” said one senior Air Force official.

  • At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.

  • He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.

  • W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.

  • All please noteHis wondrous height and girth; He has the longest legs and throatOf anything on earth.

  • And now, escaped from her room, even at this height there came upon him again the hot sluggishness of London.

  • The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.