Quadrat(n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
Quadrat(n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.
Quadrate(a.) Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Quadrate(a.) Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
Quadrate(a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
Quadrate(a.) Squared; suited; correspondent.
Quadrate(a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
Quadrate(a.) 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.
Quadrate(a.) The quadrate bone.
Quadrate(a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
Quadrate(v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
Quadrated(imp. & p. p.) of Quadrate
Quadratic(a.) Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
Quadratic(a.) Tetragonal.
Quadratic(a.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
Quadratics(n.) That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
Quadrating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quadrate
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