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Original entry ↗To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out. · To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it. · To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together. · To ride a quad bike.
A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type. · A joke used to fill long days of setting type. · A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre. · A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
Quadruple, four times the usual size or quantity. · Quadrille, marked with squares.
Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple. The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.
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- Cognate mentionquattuorla
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