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Em

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Noun

1. em, em quad, mutton quad

a quad with a square body

Example Sentences:
'since em quad' is hard to distinguish from en quad', printers sometimes called it a mutton quad''

2. em, pica, pica em

a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Em

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noun printing
1. Also called: mutton, mut
the square of a body of any size of type, used as a unit of measurement
2. Also called: pica em, pica
a unit of measurement used in printing, equal to one sixth of an inch
pronoun
an informal variant of them

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Em

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pronoun
Informal
them
1. 
electromagnetic
2. 
engineer of mines
3. 
enlisted man (or men)
noun
1. 
the letter M
2.  Printing; Obsolete
a unit of measure the width of a capital M in a type font

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Em

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pref.
Variant of en-1.
pref.
Variant of en-2.
pron.
Informal
Them.
abbr.
1. electromagnetic
2. Engineer of Mines
3. enlisted man
n.
1. The letter m.
2. Printing
a. The width of a square or nearly square piece of type, used as a unit of measure for matter set in that size of type.
b. Such a measure for 12-point type; a pica.

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