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What does quad mean?

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Noun
  1. Four shots of espresso.
  2. (chess) A kind of round robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
  3. (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
Adjective
  1. Having four shots of espresso.
Noun
  1. (informal) A quadrangle (courtyard).
  2. (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
  3. (computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
  4. (informal) A quadriceps muscle.
Adjective
  1. (poker) Of or relating to quads.
Noun
  1. A quad bike (from quadricycle)
  2. Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (1015 BTU)
Noun
  1. (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
  2. (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
  3. (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.
Verb
  1. (letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
  2. To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
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