set width

American

noun

Printing.

(in automatic typesetting) the width measured by the lowercase alphabet of a particular size and font of type.

set width British

noun

another name for set 1

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And yet that very same innovation doesn’t have a set width, so the wheels of chairs and the feet of canes and walkers can sometimes encounter the bumps in harmful ways.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2022

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