stichometry

English

Etymology

From sticho- +‎ -metry.

Noun

stichometry (countable and uncountable, plural stichometries)

  1. The measurement of books in terms of how many lines of text they contain.
  2. The division of the text of a book into lines; a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
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