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Quadrantal
() A cube.
Quadrat
() A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
Quadrat
() An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.
Quadrate
() Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Quadrate
() Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
Quadrate
() Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
Quadrate
() Squared; suited; correspondent.
Quadrate
() A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
Quadrate
() 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
() The quadrate bone.
Quadrated
() of Quadrate
Quadrating
() of Quadrate
Quadrate
() To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
Quadrate
() To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
Quadratic
() Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
Quadratic
() Tetragonal.
Quadratic
() Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
Quadratics
() That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
Quadratojugal
() Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
Quadratojugal
() Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.
Quadratojugal
() The quadratojugal bone.
Quadratrix
() A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.
Quadrature
() The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.
Quadrature
() A quadrate; a square.
Quadrature
() The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable.
Quadrature
() The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.
Quadrel
() A square piece of turf or peat.
Quadrel
() A square brick, tile, or the like.
Quadrennial
() Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.
Quadrennial
() Occurring once in four years, or at the end of every four years; as, quadrennial games.
Quadrennially
() Once in four years.
Quadrennium
() A space or period of four years.
Quadri-
() A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.
Quadribasic
() Same as Tetrabasic.
Quadrible
() Quadrable.
Quadric
() Of or pertaining to the second degree.
Quadric
() A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic.
Quadric
() A surface whose equation in three variables is of the second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are quadrics.
Quadricapsular
() Having four capsules.
Quadriceps
() The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
Quadricipital
() Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
Quadricorn
() Any quadricornous animal.
Quadricornous
() Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.
Quadricostate
() Having four ribs.
Quadridentate
() Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.
Quadriennial
() Same as Quadrennial.
Quadrifarious
() Arranged in four rows or ranks; as, quadrifarious leaves.
Quadrifid
() Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.
Quadrifoil
() Alt. of Quadrifoliate
Quadrifoliate
() Four-leaved; having the leaves in whorls of four.