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Justification vs Kashida - What's the difference?

justification | kashida |

As nouns the difference between justification and kashida

is that justification is a reason, explanation, or excuse which provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence while kashida is a type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.

justification

English

(wikipedia justification)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A reason, explanation, or excuse which provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.
  • (typography) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).

    • Related terms

    * justify * acquittal * exculpation

    Antonyms

    * conviction * condemnation

    kashida

    English

    (wikipedia kashida)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.
  • * 2008 , Thomas Powell, CSS and XHTML: The Complete Reference
    • Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...
  • (countable) A character representing this elongation.
  • * 1994 , Apple Computer, Inc, Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX typography
    • Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas ...
  • * 2002 , John Ayres, The tomes of Delphi: Win32 Shell API, Windows 2000 edition
    • However, there is no option for determining whether or not the Arabic Kashidas will be ignored; they will always be ignored in Arabic character sets.

    Synonyms

    * tatweel, tatwil

    See also

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