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Rarequadrate
The correct spelling is quadrate.
How to pronounce quadrate
noun
IPA: /ˈkwɒdɹeɪt/
Say it like: Kwa-dra-te
The correct spelling is quadrate. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. For example: "quadrating the circle"
Usage Examples
“quadrating the circle”
“not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- 2.An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- 3.The quadrate bone.
verb
- 1.To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
- 2.To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
- 3.To square.
- 4.To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
adjective
- 1.Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- 2.Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- 3.Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- 4.Squared; suited; correspondent.
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