a unit of measure for objects
a unit of screen measurement
a Windows pixel measurement that is a twentieth of a pixel
The default unit of measurement in Visual Basic painting objects. There are 1,440 twips to the inch.
A screen-independent measure of screen distance equal approximately to 1/1440 of an inch. Objects on a form should be sized and located by using twips instead of pixels so that they appear similarly on various types of display systems.
A twip or TWIP (loosely from twentieth of a point) is a typographical measurement, defined as 1/20 of a typographical point. One twip is 1/1440 inch or 17.639 µm when derived from the Post Script point at 72 to the inch, and 1/1445.4 inch or 17.573 µm based on the printer's point at 72.27 to the inch.
