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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin.
Noun[edit]
quad (plural quads)
- Four shots of espresso.
- (chess) A kind of round robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.
Adjective[edit]
quad (not comparable)
- Having four shots of espresso.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Clipping
Noun[edit]
quad (plural quads)
- (informal) A quadrangle (courtyard).
- 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:
- Every spring, the quad on the University of Washington (UW) campus transforms from a peaceful green space to a bustling habitat for hundreds of shuttering cameras, families, and onlookers.
- 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:
- (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
- (computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
- 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making (page 91)
- Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.
- 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making (page 91)
- (informal) A quadriceps muscle.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Adjective[edit]
quad (not comparable)
Translations[edit]
quadrangle — see quadrangle
quadruplet — see quadruplet
quadrilateral — see quadrilateral
Etymology 3[edit]
Abbreviation
Noun[edit]
quad (plural quads)
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (1015 BTU)
See also[edit]
Quad (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations[edit]
quad bike — see quad bike
Etymology 4[edit]
1785 Quads. pl, 1847 quads, verb 1876. From the abbreviation quad., for obsolete quadrat. Keyboard command is named for the verb sense.
Alternative forms[edit]
- quad. (obsolete)
Noun[edit]
quad (plural quads)
- (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16), p 148:
- “Quadrats, sir. We call 'em quads.” . . . Quads are the spaces left between the paragraphs that come white on the paper. If you look here, at this page that is set-up, you will see that they are deeper than the spaces left between the words and letters—regular little trenches.
- 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p 110:
- Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.
- 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed, p 91:
- Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16), p 148:
- (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting) 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.
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Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Verb[edit]
quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)
- (letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
quad m (plural quads, diminutive quadje n)
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
quad m (invariable)
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
quad f (plural quads)
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