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To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
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To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
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Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
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Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
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That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
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Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
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Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.
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The quadratojugal bone.
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A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A square piece of turf or peat.
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A square brick, tile, or the like.
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Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.
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Occurring once in four years, or at the end of every four years; as, quadrennial games.
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A space or period of four years.