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In typography, the stick, stickful, or stick of type was an inexact length based on the size of the various composing sticks used by newspaper editors to assemble pieces of moveable type. In English-language papers, it was roughly equal to 2 column inches or 100–150 words. In France, Spain, and Italy, sticks generally contained only between 1 and 4 lines of text each. A column was notionally equal to 10 sticks.
Exameter or examatre is a unit of length equal to 1018meters. This unit is a combination of the metric prefix exa (E) and the SI unit of length meter (m) and its abbreviated as "Em". Plural name is exameters.