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[ɛn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a unit of measurement equal to half an em and approximately the average width of typeset characters, used especially for estimating the total amount of space a text will require
(e.g: we always place an en between the last two items of a list)
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Origin
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late 18th century: the letter N represented as a word, since it is approximately this width
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definition by Oxford Dictionaries