quadrate

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

From Old French quadrat (“a square”), from Latin quadratus (“square”), past participle of quadrare (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).

Adjective

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
   • Foxe

     Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     Quadrate and cubical numbers.

3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
   • Howell

     A quadrate, solid, wise man.

4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
   • Harvey

     A generical description quadrate to both.

Noun

quadrate

1. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

Verb

quadrate (third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
3. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square (in various senses).

   quadrating the circle

   not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason

External links

• quadrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• quadrate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• quadrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Adjective

quadrate f

1. Feminine plural form of quadrato

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Latin

Etymology

From quadrō (“make square”), from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /kʷaˈdraː.teː/

Adverb

quadrātē (not comparable)

1. fourfold, four times

Related terms

quadrātārius quadrātiō quadrātor

quadrātus quadrō quadrus