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A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.

Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv.

A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.

The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space. Quadrantal triangle, a spherical triangle having one side equal to a quadrant or arc of 90º. -- Quadrantal versor, a versor that expresses rotation through one right angle.

ock of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines. [Abbrev. quad.]

Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.

That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.

Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.

A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.

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 square piece of turf or peat. [Prov. Eng.]

Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.

Once in four years.

A space or period of four years.

A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.

Same as Tetrabasic.

Quadrable. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the second degree.