quadrate

  1. Adjective.  Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
  2. Adjective.  Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
  3. Adjective.  (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
  4. Adjective.  (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
  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.
  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.
  7. Noun.  (anatomy) The quadrate bone. .
  8. Verb.  (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
  9. Verb.  (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
  10. Verb.  (archaic, ambitransitive) To square (in various senses).

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