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noun

Quadrate n.

(Geom.) 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 heaven, in mighty quadrate joined."

(Astrol.) 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.

(Anat.) The quadrate bone.

verb

Quadrate v. t. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

Quadrate v. i. (past & past part. quadrated; pres. part. quadrating) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; followed by with. (Archaic) "The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories."

adjective

Quadrate adj.

Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. "Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate."

Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers."

Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. (Archaic) " A quadrate, solid, wise man."

Squared; suited; correspondent. (Archaic) " A generical description quadrate to both."

Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.

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Etymology of 'Quadrate'

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"Quadrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... mosasaur was jointed; the quadrate bone, which in all reptiles connects the bone of the lower jaw with the skull, was movable, and as in snakes the lower jaw could be used in thrusting prey down the throat. The family became extinct at the end of the Mesozoic, and left no descendants. One may imitate the movement ...

— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton

... game at the cards for two persons, though she would ridicule the pedantry of the terms—such as pique—repique—the capot—they savoured (she thought) of affectation. But games for two, or even three, she never greatly cared for. She loved the quadrate, or square. She would argue thus:—Cards are warfare: the ends are gain, with glory. But cards are war, in disguise of a sport: when single adversaries encounter, the ends proposed are too palpable. By themselves, it is too close ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... the head, obtusely pointed and ovoid; nasal appendage quadrate, with a transverse bar nearly surmounting it; upper leaf triangular, with slightly emarginate sides; clear brown above, paler below and ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... Lehrsatz. In jedem rechtwinkligen Dreieck ist das Quadrat der Hypotenuse so gross wie die Quadrate ...

— German Science Reader - An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of - Physics, Chemistry and Engineering • Charles F. Kroeh

... perfect, masculine, And twixt them both a quadrate was the base, Proportion'd equally by seven and nine; Nine was the circle set in heaven's place All which compacted made a goodly ...

— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton

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