quadrate
- Adjective. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- Adjective. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- Adjective. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- Adjective. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
- Noun. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- Noun. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- Noun. (anatomy) The quadrate bone. .
- Verb. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
- Verb. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
- Verb. (archaic, ambitransitive) To square (in various senses).
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