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Definition of Quadrate

1. Adjective. Having four sides and four angles.

Definition of Quadrate

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

2. n. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

3. v. i. To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.

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

Definition of Quadrate

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

2. Adjective. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. ¹

3. Adjective. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. ¹

4. Adjective. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent. ¹

5. Noun. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. ¹

6. Noun. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. ¹

7. Noun. (anatomy) The quadrate bone. ¹

8. Verb. (archaic transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage. ¹

9. Verb. (archaic transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing. ¹

10. Verb. (archaic ambitransitive) To square (in various senses). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quadrate

1. to correspond or agree [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]

Medical Definition of Quadrate

1. 1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. "Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate." (Foxe) 2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers." 3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. " A quadrate, solid, wise man." 4. Squared; suited; correspondent. " A generical description quadrate to both. " Quadrate bone, 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. Origin: L. Quadratus squared, p. P. Of quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an arrow, Square. 1. 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." (Milton) 2. An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90 deg, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect. 3. The quadrate bone. Origin: L. Quadratum. See Quadrate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Quadrate

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"G. BAUR, University of Chicago. EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. Fig. 1.— Conolophus subcristatus Gray. Left quadrate and its relations to the squamosal, ..."

2. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"The quadrate lobe (precuneus) is the "marginal" convolution of the longitudinal fissure behind the posterior portion (paracentral fissure) of the ..."

3. The Anatomy of the Domestic Fowl by Benjamin Franklyn Kaupp (1918)
"The quadrate bone is anvil-like in shape. It has an anterior process, ... It articulates posteriorly with the quadrate bone. Description. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"In contrast to what obtains in the fishes, in amphibia, reptiles and birds, the quadrate articulates directly with the cranium in the region of the ear, ..."

5. The British Noctuae and Their Varieties by James William Tutt (1892)
"In this species the quadrate spot between the stigmata is usually joined to the ... Anterior wings of a bright red-brown colour, with a dark quadrate spot ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The latter rests upon the quadrate and is in no connexion with the parietal. Consequently the whole temporal fossa is quite open. The horizontal bridge or ..."

7. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"... round or quadrate, opaque in the upper part, linear-elliptical or hexagonal-rectangular at base. Calyptra covering the capsule to the middle, plicate, ..."

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