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That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
Consisting of forty; forty years old.
A papal indulgence multiplying remissions by forties.
Lent; so called because it consists of forty days.
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent.
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
In geometry, a quadrilateral figure; a square; a figure consisting of four sides and four angles.
1. A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
2. A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.
1. Square; having four sides and four angles.
2. In botany, having four prominent angles, as a stem or leaf.
Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal.
1. A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.
1. The fourth part; the quarter.
2. In geometry, the quarter of a circle; the arc of a circle containing ninety degrees; also, the space or area included between this arc and two radii drawn from the center to each extremity.
3. An instrument for taking the altitudes of the sun or stars, of great use in astronomy and navigation. Quadrants are variously made, but they all consist of the quarter of a circle whose limb is divided into ninety degrees; or, as in Hadley's reflecting quadrant an arc of forty five degrees is made to serve the same purpose as an arc of ninety degrees.
4. Quadrant of altitude, an appendage of the artificial globe, consisting of a slip of brass of the length of a quadrant of one of the great circles of the globe, and graduated. It is filled to the meridian and movable round to all points of the horizon. It serves as a scale in measuring altitudes, azimuths, etc.
1. The fourth part; the quarter.
2. The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center.
3. One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.
4. An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.
Pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as quadrantal space.
A vessel used by the Romans; originally called amphora. It was square and contained 80 pounds of water.
Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space.
1. A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot, each side being a Roman square foot; -- used as a measure.
2. A cube.
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1. In printing, a piece of metal used to fill the void spaces between words, etc. Quadrats are of different sizes; as m-quadrats, etc.
2. A mathematical instrument, called also a geometrical square, and line of shadows.
1. A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
2. An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.
1. Square; having four equal and parallel sides.
2. Divisible into four equal parts.
3. Square; equal; exact.
4. Suited; fitted; applicable; correspondent.
1. A square; a surface with four equal and parallel sides.
1. To suit; to correspond; to agree with; to be accommodated; followed by with.
2. Aristotle's rules for epic poetry - cannot be supposed to quadrate exactly with modern heroic poems.
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.
5. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
6. 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.
7. The quadrate bone.
8. To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
1. Square; denoting a square or pertaining to it.
2. Quadratic equation, in algebra, an equation in which the unknown quantity is of two dimensions, or raised to the second power; or one in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
1. Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
2. Tetragonal.
3. Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
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