Definition of quadrat

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Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..

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Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..
Quad :: Quad (n.) A quadrat.
Rhynchocephala :: Rhynchocephala (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia..
#NAME? :: -trixes (pl. ) of Quadratri.
Quadratic :: Quadratic (a.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square..
Sort :: Sort (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square..
Quadratics :: Quadratics (n.) That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) A quadrate; a square.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Squared; suited; correspondent.
Semiquadrate :: Semiquadrate (n.) Alt. of Semiquartil.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square..
Biquadratic :: Biquadratic (a.) Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power..
Quadratrix :: Quadratrix (n.) A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen..
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..
Evection :: Evection () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1ยก 20'..
M :: M (n.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number..
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) The quadrate bone.
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