minimum-bounding-box.html

<dt class="new"><dfn id="dfn-bounding-boxes" data-lt="bounding boxes|bounding box">minimum bounding box</dfn></dt>
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   <p>the smallest enclosing rectangle aligned to the horizontal axis within which all the points of a shape lie. For components which wrap onto multiple lines as part of a sentence or <a>block of text</a> (such as hypertext links), the bounding box is based on how the component would appear on a single line.</p>
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