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Quadrate
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- 1 Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
"Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate."
- 2 Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
"The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers."
- 3 Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. archaic
"a quadrat, solid, wise man"
- 4 Squared; suited; correspondent. archaic
"a generical description quadrate to both"
- 1 having four sides and four angles wordnet
- 1 A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
"At which command, the powers militant That stood for heav'n, in mighty quadrate joyn'd."
- 2 a square-shaped object wordnet
- 3 An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- 4 a cubelike object wordnet
- 5 The quadrate bone.
- 1 To adjust (a gun) on its carriage. archaic, transitive
- 2 To train (a gun) for horizontal firing. archaic, transitive
- 3 To square. ambitransitive, archaic
"quadrating the circle"
- 4 To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with). archaic, transitive
"not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason"
Etymology
From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātus (“square”), past participle of quadrō (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).
From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrat; compare also quadrant (“square or quadrangle”).
From Latin quadrātus, past participle of quadrō.
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