quadrangle
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French quadrangle, from Late Latin quadrangulum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quadrangle (plural quadrangles)
- (geometry) A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
- A courtyard which is quadrangular.
- Synonym: (informal) quad
- 1959, John Knowles, chapter 7, in A Separate Peace:
- I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle, settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.
- The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.
- 1959, John Knowles, chapter 13, in A Separate Peace:
- The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never considered absolutely essential to the Devon School.
Synonyms edit
- (geometry): quadrilateral, 4-gon, tetragon; see also Thesaurus:quadrilateral
Hyponyms edit
- (geometry): rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
quadrilateral — see quadrilateral
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French quadrangle, from Late Latin quadrangulum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quadrangle f (plural quadrangles)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “quadrangle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
quadrangle oblique singular, m (oblique plural quadrangles, nominative singular quadrangles, nominative plural quadrangle)
- quadrangle (four-sided polygon)
Adjective edit
quadrangle m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quadrangle)
- quadrangular (of a polygon, having four sides and four angles)