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Noun: mutton quad
  1. (printing) a unit of measurement used in typesetting, equal to the point size of the current font
    "since 'em quad' is hard to distinguish from 'en quad', printers sometimes called it a 'mutton quad'";
    - em, em quad

Type of: area unit, square measure