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column inch (複数形 column inches)

1. (printing) One inch of a printed column; a measure of space allocated.
   • 1877, Pettengill's newspaper directory and advertisers' hand-book for 1877‎^[1], page 87:

     ... advertisements, $40 per column inch per year.

   • 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 517:

     One mass-circulation Sunday newspaper recently devoted several column inches to an unnecessary weekend working from Stratford to the Essex coast to provide empty stock for an up service that had ceased its high summer running the previous Saturday.