white spruce

n : medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having

short blue-green leaves and slender cones [syn: {Picea

glauca}]

whitespace

(From the colour it produces on white paper) Any

contiguous sequence of {spaces}, {tabs}, {carriage return}s,

and/or {line feed}s. Whitespace might also possibly include

{form feed} characters. The term is common on {Unix}.

See also {non-printing character}.

(1996-09-04)