Homoglyphic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so). not-comparable

    "Most of these errors apparently result from homoglyphic confusion, but it is hard to tell which mistakes are due to the scribes and which are due to the publishers' conservative or oblivious editing."

Example

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"Most of these errors apparently result from homoglyphic confusion, but it is hard to tell which mistakes are due to the scribes and which are due to the publishers' conservative or oblivious editing."

Etymology

From homoglyph + -ic.

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