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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Breviernoun
A particular size of letter used in printing; so called, probably, from being originally used in printing a breviary; as,
Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou liv’st,
Live well, how long or short, permit to heav’n. John Milton.
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In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point has been between 0.18 and 0.4 millimeters. Following the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s and 1990s, digital printing has largely supplanted the letterpress printing and has established the DTP point (DeskTop Publishing point) as the de facto standard. The DTP point is defined as 1⁄72 of an international inch (1/72 × 25.4 mm ≈ 0.353 mm) and, as with earlier American point sizes, is considered to be 1⁄12 of a pica. In metal type, the point size of the font describes the height of the metal body on which the typeface's characters were cast. In digital type, letters of a font are designed around an imaginary space called an em square. When a point size of a font is specified, the font is scaled so that its em square has a side length of that particular length in points. Although the letters of a font usually fit within the font's em square, there is not necessarily any size relationship between the two, so the point size does not necessarily correspond to any measurement of the size of the letters on the printed page.
Webster Dictionary
Breviernoun
a size of type between bourgeois and minion
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Brevier
brev-ēr′, n. a small type between bourgeois and minion, originally used in printing breviaries.
Etymology and Origins
Brevier
The style of type originally employed in the composition of the Catholic “Breviary.”
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Brevier in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Brevier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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