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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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..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..
Square :: Square (n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
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..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90ยก, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6..
Pterygoquadrate :: Pterygoquadrate (a.) Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages..
Semiquadrate :: Semiquadrate (n.) Alt. of Semiquartil.
Quadratojugal :: Quadratojugal (a.) Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
Quarry :: Quarry (a.) Quadrate; square.
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..
Boron :: Boron (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B..
Quartile :: Quartile (n.) Same as Quadrate.
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..
Quadratrix :: Quadratrix (n.) A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen..
Quadratics :: Quadratics (n.) That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
Subquadruple :: Subquadrate (a.) Nearly or approximately square; almost square.
Sort :: Sort (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered..
Quadrated :: Quadrated (imp. & p. p.) of Quadrat.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) The quadrate bone.
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