What does "quadrate" mean?
Quadrate: Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers." Sir T. Browne.
Additional senses
- 2.Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] " A quadrate, solid, wise man." Howell.
- 3.Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] " A generical description quadrate to both." Harvey. Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.
- 4.(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. Milton.
- 5.(Astrol.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90º, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.
- 6.(Anat.) The quadrate bone.
- 7.To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with. [Archaic] The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories. Burke.
- 8.To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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