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  • English Word Quadrated Definition of Quadrate
  • English Word Quadratic Definition Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
  • English Word Quadratic Definition Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
  • English Word Quadratic Definition Tetragonal.
  • English Word Quadratics Definition That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
  • English Word Quadrating Definition of Quadrate
  • English Word Quadratojugal Definition Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
  • English Word Quadratojugal Definition Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.
  • English Word Quadratojugal Definition The quadratojugal bone.
  • English Word Quadratrix Definition A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.
  • English Word Quadrature Definition 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.
  • English Word Quadrature Definition A quadrate; a square.
  • English Word Quadrature Definition The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable.
  • English Word Quadrature Definition The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.
  • English Word Quadrel Definition A square piece of turf or peat.
  • English Word Quadrel Definition A square brick, tile, or the like.
  • English Word Quadrennial Definition Occurring once in four years, or at the end of every four years; as, quadrennial games.
  • English Word Quadrennial Definition Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.
  • English Word Quadrennially Definition Once in four years.
  • English Word Quadrennium Definition A space or period of four years.
  • English Word Quadri- Definition A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.
  • English Word Quadri-syllabical Definition Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word.
  • English Word Quadribasic Definition Same as Tetrabasic.
  • English Word Quadrible Definition Quadrable.
  • English Word Quadric Definition A surface whose equation in three variables is of the second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are quadrics.
  • English Word Quadric Definition A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic.
  • English Word Quadric Definition Of or pertaining to the second degree.
  • English Word Quadricapsular Definition Having four capsules.
  • English Word Quadriceps Definition The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
  • English Word Quadricipital Definition Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.