Look up: quarto

1. quarto
   Description of the size of a book: about 12 inches high (4mo).
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2. Quarto
   (4to). A book, made up of sheets folded into quarters, (giving eight pages)
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3. quarto
   [n] - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
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4. Quarto
   1. Sheet folded twice, making pages one-fourth the size of the original sheet. A quarto makes an 8-page signature.
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5. Quarto
   A piece of paper folded in half then half again, making quarters or 8 pages.
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6. Quarto
   Quar'to adjective [ Latin in quarto in fourth, from quartus the fourth: confer F. ( in ) quarto . See Quart .] Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
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7. Quarto
   Quar'to noun ; plural Quartos Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
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8. quarto
   4to noun the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
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9. Quarto
   • (a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto. • (n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
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10. quarto
    quarto A shortened form of Latin in quarto, 'in a fourth'; that is, of a sheet of paper, applied to a size of paper, and to a size of a printed volume. Paper is in quarto when a whole single sheet is folded twice so as to form four leaves; a book is technically termed of 'quarto' size when made up of sheets folded twice.
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11. quarto
    a traditional Italian unit of volume, equal to about 73.6 liters or 2.60 cubic feet.
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12. quarto
    a traditional Portuguese unit of volume, not related to the Italian quarto nor to the English quart. The Portuguese quarto equals 2 oitavos, which is about 3.46 liters or 0.92 U.S. gallon. There are 16 quartos in a fanega, 124 in a pipa.
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13. quarto
    in English, quarto is a page size; see -mo.
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14. Quarto
    (board game) `Quarto` is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller. It is played on a 4×4 board. There are 16 unique pieces, each of which is either: Players take turns choosing a piece which the other player must then place on the board. A...
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15. Quarto
    `Quarto` (abbreviated `4to` or `4°`) is a book or pamphlet produced from full `blanksheets`, each of which is printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded two times to produce four leaves (that is, eight book pages). Each printed page now presents as one-fourth size of the full b...
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