quadrate

Meanings

Adjective

• Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
• Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
• Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
• Squared; suited; correspondent.

Noun

• A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
• An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
• The quadrate bone.

Verb

• To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
• To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
• To square.
• To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).

Origin

• From Middle English quadrat, from Old French quadrat ("a square"), from Latin quadrātus ("square"), past participle of quadrō, from quadra, later quadrus, from quattuor.