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Divided into four parts.

In four parts.

A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.

Having four wings; -- said of insects.

Having four leaves; quadrifoliate.

A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

A subdivision into four parts.

Having four hoofs; as, a quadrisulcate foot; a quadrisulcate animal.

Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word.

A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.

Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.

Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.

Having four valves; quadrivalve.

Having four ways meeting in a point. B. Jonson.

The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

Having four feet.

Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.

An aëroplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces.

Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance. Quadruple time (Mus.), that in which each measure is divided into four equal parts.