Thesaurus: quadrate
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
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Definitions
- a. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- a. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- a. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- a. Squared; suited; correspondent.
- a. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- a. An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.
- a. The quadrate bone.
- a. To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
- v. t. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
- adj. having four sides and four angles
- n. a cubelike object
- n. a square-shaped object