infill
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See also: in-fill
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]infill (third-person singular simple present infills, present participle infilling, simple past and past participle infilled)
- To fill in a space, hole or gap.
- 2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques:
- Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black. The lettering can be further refined and, unlike ink-based artwork, can be rekerned without being redrawn.
- (urban studies) To rededicate land in an urban environment to new construction.
Translations
[edit]to rededicate land
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Noun
[edit]infill (countable and uncountable, plural infills)
- That which fills in a space, hole or gap.
- 2020 July 15, “Rail freight sector demands Government commitment”, in Rail, page 10:
- Government needs to provide certainty to the rail freight industry with infill electrification programmes [...]. "First, it's about Government committing to infill electrification so we can do things with the locomotives we already have, and then a rolling plan of electrification."
- (cosmetics) The redecoration of a fingernail or toenail after it has grown, to prevent an unsightly gap.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]infill (countable and uncountable, plural infills)
- Alternative form of infil (“infiltration”).
- 1991, John Leppelman, Blood on the risers: an airborne soldier's thirty-five months in Vietnam:
- Hinton and I were briefed at the TOC and received maps of our AO to memorize and mark with codes for the primary and secondary LZs for infill and exfill.
- 2011, Brett Newman, Detroit Convention Center: A Design Process and Typological Study:
- Pedestrian infill/exfill from Atwater Street