Definition of Four-sided

1. Adjective. Having four sides.

Exact synonyms: Quadrilateral
Similar to: Many-sided, Multilateral

Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-sided

four-on-the-floor
four-part harmony
four-party
four-peat
four-penny nail
four-ply
four-point Calvinist
four-point Calvinists
four-poster
four-posters
four-pounder
four-seam fastball
four-seamer
four-seamers
four-sided (current term)
four-spot
four-square
four-strand crossing over
four-stroke engine
four-stroke engines
four-stroke internal-combustion engine
four-stroking
four-tailed bandage
four-vector
four-vectors
four-velocity
four-wheel
four-wheel drive
four-wheeled

Literary usage of Four-sided

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry by Andrew Ure (1828)
"The primitive form is a rather acu^ double four-sided pyramid. Secondary i't*rm* are, the primitive figure bevelled nn thr angles ; a very acute double ..."

2. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"The isosceles four-sided pyramids, Fig. 8., are contained under eight isosceles triangles. 1. The isosceles four-sided pyramids, have two principal sections ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"The barium-suit separates, on evaporating the filtrate in a vacuum, in large, transparent, pale-yellow, obliquely truncated, four-sided prisms. ..."

4. Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome by Archaeological Institute of America (1905)
"... suggesting the edge of a platform. The stretch, which may be FIGURE 14. — A four-sided CAPITAL AT 23 traced for 13 m., is in two pieces, ..."

5. A Treatise on Surveying, Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"... fractions) 1n each of the preceding products, their difference will be the double area of the triangle AB C. 252. Taking now a four.sided field, ..."

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