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Quadrate   Listen
noun
Quadrate  n.  
1.
(Geom.) 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."
2.
(Astrol.) 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.
3.
(Anat.) The quadrate bone.






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"Quadrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... plant with stem red, straight, quadrate, ramose. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, and fringed with hairs. Flowers axillary, small, red, solitary. Peduncles short. Calyx inferior, bell-shaped, with 8-toothed border, the 4 alternate teeth larger. Corolla none. Nectary bell-shaped, surrounding the ovary, shorter than the calyx, with ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera



Words linked to "Quadrate" :   square, regular hexahedron



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