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noun - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
The page size, from 5 by 8 inches to 6 by 92 inches, of a book composed of printer’s sheets folded into eight leaves.
A book composed of octavo pages.
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| (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some folded sheets of paper.) In Shakespeare's lifetime, many of his plays were printed in quarto, folding a sheet twice to make four leaves; "Henry VI, Part 3" appeared in this format, folding three times to make eight leaves |
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| a size of book page that results from folding each printed sheet into eight leaves (sixteen pages). |
| the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves |
| The page size, from 5 by 8 inches to 6 by 9 12 inches, of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into eight leaves. |
| A book composed of octavo pages. |
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| Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", (abbreviated 8vo, 8°, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book. An octavo is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of (e.g. A2 paper) on which 16 pages of text were printed, which were then folded three times to produce eight leaves. Each leaf of an octavo book thus represents one eighth the size of the original sheet. Other common book formats are folios and quartos. Octavo is also used as a general description of size of books that are about 8 to 10 inches (200 to 250 millimetres) tall (almost A5 paper size), and as such does not necessarily indicate the actual printing format of the books, which may even be unknown as is the case for many modern books. These terms are discussed in greater detail in |