Definitions for quads

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IPA: /kwɒdz/

Quads is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in quads (adqsu).

Definitions for quads

noun

1. a quadrangle, as on a college campus.
2. Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
3. a quadruplet.
4. quadraphonic sound, or an electronic system for reproducing it:
5. Informal. quadruple occupancy:
6. quadriplegic:

adjective

1. quadraphonic.
2. designating or comprising four persons or things:

plural noun

1. quadriceps muscles.

verb (used with object)

1. to space out (matter) by means of quads.

Origin of quads

by shortening

Examples for quads

For very short measures, as in tabular column heads, 6-point quads should be used.

The Governator recently became a symbol of excess again for reasons unrelated to the size of his quads.

High Spaces and quads—Used in type composition when the page is to be molded for electrotyping.

Presses and iron of all kind had gone to pieces, but some of the larger lead types and quads still were recognizable.

Step-ups not only strengthen your quads and glutes, but also improve range of motion.

Here are the same courts, or closes, called courts at Cambridge, and quads at Oxford.

Step-Ups Skiing and snowboarding are both “leg sports,” so strengthening the quads is hugely important, Morin says.

It was always too much or too little ink; quads were not even and a sufficient number of leads were seldom inserted.

A good plan is to put a slip of paper at one end of the line of quads or letters (See A, Fig. 5), and to push up the knee firmly.

For ordinary measures a line of perfect 12-point quads will be a good gage.