| NOUN | quantity | em, em quad, mutton quad | a quad with a square body |
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| quantity | em, pica em, pica | a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing |
| Sounds | eh'm | |
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| Rhymes | Am / AM ... stem: 21 rhymes with ehm... | |
| Meaning | A quad with a square body. | |
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| Example | "since 'em quad' is hard to distinguish from 'en quad', printers sometimes called it a 'mutton quad'" | |
| Synonyms | em quad, mutton quad | |
| Broader | area unit, square measure | A system of units used to measure areas |
| Spanish | eme | |
| Meaning | A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing. | |
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| Synonyms | pica em, pica | |
| Part of | inch, in | A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot |
| Parts | en, nut | half the width of an em |
| point | A linear unit used to measure the size of type | |
| Broader | linear unit, linear measure | A unit of measurement of length |
| Spanish | cícero, pica em | |
| Catalan | pica em, pica | |
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