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em

Speech parts

1. em - Noun

2. em - Adjective

3. em - Pronoun

4. em - Interjection

5. Em - Proper noun

Meaning

The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad' Source: Internet

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