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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves;
[syn: quarto, 4to]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Quarto \Quar"to\, n.; pl. 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Quarto \Quar"to\, a. [L. in quarto in fourth, from quartus the fourth: cf. F. (in) quarto. See Quart.] Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

quarto n 1: the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves [syn: quarto, 4to]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "quarto": crown, duodecimo, eighteenmo, farthing, folio, fourth, fourth part, imperial, medium, octavo, octodecimo, one-fourth, quart, quarter, quartern, royal, sextodecimo, sixteenmo, super, twelvemo, twenty-five cents, twenty-five percent, two bits