Vocabulary : Quadrantes to Quadrature

Quadrantes : of Quadrans
Quadrat : A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines. ;; An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.
Quadrate : Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. ;; Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. ;; Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. ;; Squared; suited; correspondent. ;; A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. ;; An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6. ;; The quadrate bone. ;; To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with. ;; To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
Quadrated : of Quadrate
Quadratic : Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square. ;; Tetragonal. ;; Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.

Quadratics : That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
Quadrating : of Quadrate
Quadratojugal : Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones. ;; Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone. ;; The quadratojugal bone.
Quadratrix : A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.
Quadrature : 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. ;; A quadrate; a square. ;; 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. ;; 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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