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/ɛm/ abbreviation · British & US
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What does em mean?

abbreviation

A unit of measurement equal to one-tenth of a centimeter or one-hundredth of a meter. In computing, a unit of measurement equal to one-sixty-fourth of a byte.

Example

"The width of the paper is 10 em."

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