Definition of "quadrate" in English

adjective

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.

   • The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.

3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.

noun

1. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.

3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.

2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

3. (archaic, ambitransitive) To square.

   • quadrating the circle

4. (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).

   • not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason