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- noun Plural form of
em .
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Examples
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This includes using relative measures (such as ems) for both text size and container size.
Web Teacher › Can you meet the WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Standards on your web site? 2008
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Slick 'ems': Other researchers developed chemical compounds that do much the same thing to vehicles.
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"Wouldn't them alkali bogs breedin 'a billion' no-see-'ems 'a second be kind of a drawback?" inquired Teeters tentatively.
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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All this is accomplished at a rate of four or five thousand "ems" per hour of the size of type used on this page.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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The text numbers and images are held in an unordered list without any extra markup (no 'ems' or 'spans' etc).
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Type measurement is by ems, meaning the width of the letter 'm'.] -- he is sure to make money.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Mark Twain 1872
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Type measurement is by ems, meaning the width of the letter 'm'.] -- he is sure to make money.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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Master's daughter, wots come from boarding school! says the sight of 'ems' enough to frighten one into conwulsions! "
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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Master's daughter, wots come from boarding school! says the sight of 'ems' enough to frighten one into conwulsions! "
Sketches — Volume 05 Robert Seymour 1818
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Then your good self went off in a sulk,Hows the mac,ems playing these days.
The NHS deserves better than government meddling | David Miliband 2011
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