roman letters
1Roman letters used in mathematics — NOTOC Many Roman letters, both capital and small, are used in mathematics, science and engineering to denote by convention specific or abstracted constants, variables of a certain type, units, multipliers, physical entities. Certain letters, when …
2roman letters — noun a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions • Syn: ↑roman, ↑roman type, ↑roman print • Derivationally related forms: ↑Roman (for: ↑roman), ↑Romanic ( …
3Roman numerals — n. the Roman letters used as numerals until the 10th cent. A.D.: in Roman numerals I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, and M = 1,000 Other numbers are formed from these by adding or subtracting: the value of a symbol following another …
4roman — adj. & n. adj. 1 a of ancient Rome or its territory or people. b archaic of its language. 2 of medieval or modern Rome. 3 of papal Rome, esp. = ROMAN CATHOLIC. 4 of a kind ascribed to the early Romans (Roman honesty; Roman virtue). 5 surviving… …
5Roman — adj. & n. adj. 1 a of ancient Rome or its territory or people. b archaic of its language. 2 of medieval or modern Rome. 3 of papal Rome, esp. = ROMAN CATHOLIC. 4 of a kind ascribed to the early Romans (Roman honesty; Roman virtue). 5 surviving… …
6Roman or roman — In typography, type fonts based on the characters carved in stone, their thick and thin strokes derived from the writing tools used by scribe in ancient Rome. In its purest form, Roman letters have serifs at the ends of the strokes. Roman type …
7Roman — I. noun Etymology: partly from Middle English, from Old English, from Latin Romanus, adjective & noun, from Roma Rome; partly from Middle English Romain, from Anglo French, from Latin Romanus Date: before 12th century 1. a. a native or resident… …
8roman print — noun a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions • Syn: ↑roman, ↑roman type, ↑roman letters • Derivationally related forms: ↑Roman (for: ↑roman), ↑Romanic ( …
9roman type — noun a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions • Syn: ↑roman, ↑roman letters, ↑roman print • Derivationally related forms: ↑Roman (for: ↑roman), ↑Romanic ( …
10Roman type — In Typography, roman type has two principal meanings, both stemming from the stylistic origin of text typefaces from inscriptional capitals used in ancient Rome:* one of the major families of traditional typefaces as a synonym for serif or… …
