em quad

1. 1.

   a quad with a square body

   “since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad'”

   Synonymsemmutton quad

   Broaderarea unit

Questions about em quad

What does em quad mean?

em quad means "a quad with a square body".

What is another word for em quad?

Close synonyms include em, mutton quad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is em quad a common word?

em quad is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.