Quadrat
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
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.
Quadrat
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
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.
Quadrate
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Square; having four equal and parallel sides.
3. Square; equal; exact.
Quadrate
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. A square; a surface with four equal and parallel sides.
2. In
astrology, an aspect of the heavenly bodies, in which they are distant from each other
ninety degrees, or the quarter of a circle; the same as
quartile.
Quadrate
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
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.
Quadrate
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
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.
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.
Quadrate
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
To
adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
Quadratic
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
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.
Quadratic
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a
quadrate, or square; square.
3. Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
2. Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.
1. A square or squared figure.
2. In geometry, a mechanical line by means of which we can find right lines equal to the circumference of circles or other curves and their several parts.
A curve made use of in the
quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.
1. The act of squaring; the reducing of a figure to a square. Thus the finding of a square which shall contain just as much area as a circle or a triangle, is the quadrature of that circle or triangle.
3. In astronomy, the aspect of the moon when distant from the sun 90 degrees or a quarter of the circle; or when the moon is at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.
4. Quadrature of curves, in mathematics, the finding of
rectilineal figures containing the same areas as figures bounded by curved lines.
1. The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given
curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of
abscissas.
3. The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable.
4. The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.
