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Trirectangular :: Trirectangular (a.) Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.

Biquadratic :: Biquadratic (a.) Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power..

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Squared; suited; correspondent.

Quadrantes :: Quadrantes (pl. ) of Quadran.

Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) The fourth part; the quarter.

#NAME? :: -trices (pl. ) of Quadratri.

Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter

Subquadruple :: Subquadrate (a.) Nearly or approximately square; almost square.

Quadra :: Quadra (n.) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like..

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.

Quadratics :: Quadratics (n.) That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.

Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures..

Biquadrate :: Biquadrate (n.) The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4..

Vane :: Vane (n.) One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc..

Quadra :: Quadra (n.) A fillet, or listel..

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

Quadrantal :: Quadrantal (n.) A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot, each side being a Roman square foot; -- used as a measure..

Quadratrix :: Quadratrix (n.) A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen..

Gunter''s Quadrant :: Gunter's quadrant () A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale..

Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center..

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