quadrate
/ˈkwɒdɹeɪt//kwɒdˈɹeɪt/
noun
- 1
A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- 2
An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- 3
The quadrate bone.
verb
- 1
To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
- 2
To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
- 3
To square.
“quadrating the circle”
- 4
To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
“not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason”
adjective
- 1
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- 2
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- 3
Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- 4
Squared; suited; correspondent.
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