quad

Meanings

Noun

• Four shots of espresso.
• A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
• 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.
• A quadrangle .
• A quadruplet .
• A quadrilateral.
• The quadriceps muscle.
• A quadriplegic person.
• Quadruplex videotape.
• A quadrupel beer.
• A quadcopter.
• A skate with four wheels.
• A quad bike
• Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU
• 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.

Adjective

• Having four shots of espresso.
• Of or relating to quads.

Verb

• to ride a quad bike
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• em space
• quadrat

Origin

• From Latin.
• s.
• Abbreviation
• 1785 Quads. pl, 1847 quads, verb 1876. From the abbreviation quad., for obsolete quadrat. Keyboard command is named for the verb sense.