quad

• Printing Plant Machinery, Type, Material, Fittings, Stock-in-Trade, Paper, &c., including QUAD-CROWN CYLINDER MACHINE, With Flyers, Riders, &c., by Miller & Richard. - 1896, Sunderland. Re Mawson, Phillips & Co., Ld.,...
• Around the corner waits a Quad Damage rune, which you can activate before returning to the Teleporter and heading for the Gold Key. - 1998, Kip Ward, Mike van Mantgem, Axel Floyd, Quake for Nintendo 64 (Prima’s...
• With Mali-400 MP4 GPU, 2GB of RAM and a quad-core Cortex-A9 processor, this tablet is more than capable to handle even the latest graphics intense games - 2014, Brian Johnson, 21 Best Tablets for You This Holiday Season...

• “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...
• Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces. - 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110:
• Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines. - 2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91:

Synonyms: em quad em space quadrat

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.

• Gilt-backed books on gilded shelf or table caught the eye, and as you turned your glance from the luxurious interiors to the well-shorn lawn in the Quad with its classic fountain also gilded by sunbeams, the mental...
• 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...
• The teenage couple is lounging on the lawn outside a high school, taking advantage of a free period between classes in that age-old way: making out on the quad. - 2021 November 21, Nicole Sperling, “How Do You Make Teen...

• The quads is all right, barrin’ that the bay is blind o’ the left eye, and the chestnut a bit weak in the off fore. - 1934, John Buchan, The Free Fishers, page 258:

1. A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.

2. (skating) A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.

3. A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.

   • A grande iced quad latte with milk is $6.65 + tax, whereas a quad over ice with milk added at the self-serve station is only $3.65 + tax - 2023 May 7, Josh, “How to Order a Quad Over Ice + Fun Alternatives”, in Angry...

4. A skate with four wheels.

   • These are the quads I recommend for newbies. - 2018, Elicia Hyder, Lights Out Lucy: Roller Derby 101:
   • When you can skate, inline, ice, quads are all equally enjoyable as long as they are of good enough quality. - 2014, Brigitte Legendre, A Skater's Business, page 16:

• The Pair, Triples, and Quads can be formed with both Honor and Suit Tiles. - 1991, Alain Gelbman, Mah Jong: One Step at a Time, page 7:
• Object of the game: To use up all the tiles by playing them in quads. A quad is four consecutive numbers running in ascending or descending order, and played in a straight line. - 1999, Jennifer Kelley, Great Book of...
• Each person on the team could be exclusively responsible for taking care of and keeping records for one set of four plants (a quad). - 2002, Experiments with Plants: teacher’s guide, page 18:

1. (electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.

2. (radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.

3. (informal) A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.

   • My husband Jim was home[…] and so were my children: Samantha, 4, and the quadruplets, Zachary, Danielle, Amanda, and Elisabeth. The quads were eighteen months old and in their usual fine form — singing, banging, pushing...

4. (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.

5. (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.

6. (poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).

   • Both players had four of a kind. A had quad fours; B had quad deuces. - 2001, Alfred Alvarez, Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats, page 90:

• Aesthetics aside, if you train your quads while neglecting your hamstrings, you're setting yourself up for an eventual injury. - 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:

• The high band color quadruplex format is recommended for the following reasons: 1. Quad is now the accepted industry standard world-wide with over 90% of all television broadcast operations using this format for video...

• The worse was the realization that this was my new reality. This too was Bill's debut as a husband of a quad and his first social gathering since June 22. - 2005, Nancy H. Blose, Behind the Curtain: Living as a...

• Cad was a ferocious driver of a quad, much given to wheelies, jumps and stunts in general. - 2000, Sam Llewellyn, Wonder Dog, page 20:

Synonyms: quad bike four-wheeler

Hypernyms: ATV all-terrain vehicle vehicle

Coordinate Terms: three-wheeler dirtbike UTV SxS side-by-side

• System Rasterization Primitives • Polygons • Triangles, Trapezoids, Quads - 1989, ACM SIGGRAPH '89 Course Notes, New York: Association for Computing Machinery, page 48:
• schemes have appeared which generate good results when applied to meshes which contain both triangular and quadrilateral regions. These kinds of schemes turn out to be very useful for modelling animations, because...
• 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...

• Today you can buy quadrotor drones—also known as quadcopters—of just about any kind, for just about any price. The extremely wealthy can buy gold-plated quads, and the rest of us can buy tiny plastic ones. - 2017 May...

• Can you "quad" the cable? - 1901, Report of the Industrial Commission on Transportation, page 232:
• The star quadding of the wires ensures a reduction in the diameters of cables and their weight […] - 1961, Telecommunications, page 690:
• The conductors in quadded cables are tinned and may also be enameled. - 1965, Telephone Cable Splicing: Cable Terminations and Cable Repairs, United States. Department of the Army, page 906:

• visibility was perfect and mud was plentiful for our quadding adventure. - 2006 April 27, Christopher Thrall, “There’s a mud-eating grin to be seen after every quadding adventure”, in Vue Weekly, Edmonton, page 31: