8vo

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  8vo \8vo\ n.
     1. the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet
        of paper three times to form eight leaves.
  
     Syn: octavo, eightvo
          [WordNet 1.5]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  eightvo \eightvo\ n.
     the size of a book (ca. 16 x 23 cm) whose pages are made by
     folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves.
     The pages have about half the area of a {quarto}. Symbolized
     as {8vo}, and {8[deg]}.
  
     Syn: octavo, 8vo, 8[deg].
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  8vo
       n : the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet
           of paper three times to form eight leaves [syn: {octavo},
            {eightvo}]