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A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined. Milton.

A plane figure having four sides, and consequently four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines.

A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.

The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150º. Hutton.

A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.

The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72º. Hutton.

g body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite.

An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.

a continuous wagon vault, or cradle vault, whose two abutments are located on an inclined planed plane, such as the vault supporting a stairway, or forming the ceiling of a stairway.

modus (Law), an excessive and unreasonable modus. See Modus, 3. -- To set (the iron of a plane, etc.) rank, to set so as to take off a thick shaving. Moxon.

The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. Brande & C.

Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

uring angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having an entire circle. -- Reflecting galvanometer, a galvanometer in which the deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror attached to it, wh…

To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. [R.] Todhunter.

Same as Isometric. Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular. -- Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedr…

The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on wwhich it is formed.

The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.

strained; as, a painting may want repose. Angle of repose (Physics), the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or side down with uniform velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves.…

set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. -- Reticulated micrometer, a micrometer for an optical instrument, consisting of a reticule in the focus of an eyepiece. -- Reticulated work (Masonry), work constructed with diamond-shaped stones, or square stones placed…