Meanings
plural octodecimos
- papermediaA size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into eighteenths (3.5"–4.5" x 4.9"–5.9").
Synonyms: 18mo, eighteenmo, 18º
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into eighteenths (3.5"–4.5" x 4.9"–5.9").
nounA book consisting of pages of that size.
Origin
From Latin ablative of octusdecimus (“eighteenth”).
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