Initial

:''Alternative meaning: Initial (linguistics)'' [[Image:IncunabulumDetail.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Detail from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strassburg by J.R.Grueninger. The coloured chapter initials were hand written after the page was printed.]] An initial is a more largely set letter, often several lines comprehensive, with a decorating grapheme at the beginning of a work, a chapter or a paragraph. In the early period of the printing, the typesettings released the necessary surface, so that the Initials (in a further work procedure) could be arranged by book painters or writers. Historical Initials was decorated frequently with ornamentations or motives, which refer to the action of the text. The word comes from the Latin ''initialis'', which means ''standing at the beginning''. See also typography, illuminated manuscript, incunabulum. ''Source'': typolis.de typography

See other meanings of words starting from letter:

I

IA | IB | IC | ID | IE | IF | IG | IH | IJ | IK | IL | IM | IN | IO | IP | IR | IS | IT | IU | IW | IX | IY | IZ |

Words begining with Initial:

Initial
Initial-stress-derived_noun
Initial-stress-derived_noun
Initial-stress-derived_noun/Delete
Initial-stress-derived_nouns
Initialisation_vector
Initialism
Initialism
Initialisms
Initialization
Initialization_of_the_differintegrals
Initialization_vector
Initialized_fractional_calculus
Initialized_fractional_calculus
Initializer
Initials
Initial_(linguistics)
Initial_(linguistics)
Initial_condition
Initial_conditions
Initial_consonant_mutation
Initial_consonant_mutation
Initial_D
Initial_D
Initial_Detonation
Initial_D_Arcade_Stage
Initial_D_Characters
Initial_D_Locations
Initial_events_of_the_Rwandan_Genocide
Initial_Margin
Initial_margin
Initial_object
Initial_Program_Load
Initial_Program_Load
Initial_Public_Offering
Initial_public_offering
Initial_Public_Offerings
Initial_public_offerings
Initial_Teaching_Alphabet
Initial_Teaching_Alphabet
Initial_topology
Initial_value_problem
Initial_value_problem