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  • noun The base size in the series of the international standard. Set such that it has an area of 1 square metre, where the ratio between the width and the length equals square root of 2. The width of each size is equal to the length of next smaller size.

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See the Wikipedia article ISO 216, the international standard on paper sizes.

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