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column inch — UK US noun [C] ► MARKETING, MEASURES a unit for measuring space in newspapers, magazines, etc.: » You need about 800 column inches for 7 full page ads. »There have been many column inches printed recently on the subject of recession … Financial and business terms
column-inch — ˌcolumn ˈinch noun [countable] MARKETING a unit of measurement used by people selling advertising space in newspapers and magazines. A column inch of text is a column wide and an inch deep: • Most small ads fill one or two column inches … Financial and business terms
Column inch — A column inch is a measurement of the amount of content in published works that use multiple columns per page. A column inch is a unit of space one column wide by one inch high. Contents 1 A newspaper page 2 Column width 3 Column inches and… … Wikipedia
column — col|umn W2S2 [ˈkɔləm US ˈka: ] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: colomne, from Latin columna, from columen top ] 1.) a tall solid upright stone post used to support a building or as a decoration 2.) a line of numbers or words written… … Dictionary of contemporary English
column — noun 1 tall stone post ADJECTIVE ▪ huge, tall ▪ fluted ▪ colonnades of fluted Doric columns ▪ classical ▪ concrete … Collocations dictionary
Column — For other uses, see Column (disambiguation). National Capitol Columns at the United States National Arboretum in Washington, D.C … Wikipedia
Column of Justinian — Reconstruction of the column, after Cornelius Gurlitt, 1912. The depiction of a helical narrative frieze around the column, after the fashion of Trajan s Column, is erroneous. The Column of Justinian was a Roman triumphal column erected in… … Wikipedia
Inches of pressure — Inch Inch, n. [OE. inche, unche, AS. ynce, L. uncia the twelfth part, inch, ounce. See {Ounce} a weight.] [1913 Webster] 1. A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
column inch — (col in) a unit of relative area used in journalism. A column inch is an area one column wide and one inch deep. The width of a column varies; a standard size in the U.S. is 2 1/16 inch. At this width a column inch is 2.0625 square inches or… … Dictionary of units of measurement
column — noun /ˈkɒləm,ˈkɑːləm/ a) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration. It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it… … Wiktionary
