Search the Dictionary

The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.

That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.

Consisting of forty; forty years old.

An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

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.

o which a plane is divided by the coördinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.

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.

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

e 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.

g; 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.

th power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.