Category:Quadrate

Quad"rate, a. Etym: [l. quadratus squared, p. p. of quadrare to make Four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus Square, quattuor four. See quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, quarry an Arrow, square.]

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four Right angles; square. Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. Foxe.

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " quadrate and Cubical numbers." Sir t. Browne.

3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [archaic] " a quadrate, Solid, wise man." Howell.

4. 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.

Quadrate Quad"rate, n. Etym: [l. quadratum. See quadrate, a.]

1. (geom.)

Defn: 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.

2. (astrol.)

Defn: 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.

3. (anat.)

Defn: the quadrate bone.

Quadrate Quad"rate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quadrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Quadrating.] Etym: [see quadrate, a.]

Defn: 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.

Quadrate Quad"rate, v. t.

Defn: to adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for Horizontal firing.