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What Modern Computer Term Derives Its Name From Metal Casting?

Format
Booting
Font
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Answer: Font

The term “font”, which refers to the different styles of typeface available on your computer, is derived from the Middle French word “fonte”.

The word meant “something that has been melted; a casting”. In a pre-computer age, the term font was used in reference to the physical sets of typeface employed by a printer which were created, via metal casting, at a type foundry.

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The Oldest Known Trees Are All Members Of What Species?

Patagonia Cypress Giant Sequoia
Great Basin Bristlecone Pine Western Juniper

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Leading Them There Dancing
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Iron Tin
Bronze Copper

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Locusts Plague Outbreaks
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Mars Neptune
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Wine Bottles Waste Stone

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Quantum Texture Generation Procedural Generation
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