quad out
In old-fashioned printing, to fill the empty space at the end of a line with blank blocks so the line looks neat and even.
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In typography, to fill the remaining space at the end of a line with blank quad spaces so that the line is complete.
"The typesetter was told to quad out the last line of each chapter so that the layout looked uniform."
Highly specialized printing and typesetting term. A 'quad' in typography is a blank metal block (or space) used to fill lines. 'Quad out' means to insert these blanks to fill out a short line. Largely historical now, as digital typesetting handles spacing automatically. Very rarely encountered outside specialist printing contexts.
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