Definitions for quadrate

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quadrate quad·rate

Spelling: [adjective, noun kwod-rit, -reyt; verb kwod-reyt]

IPA: /adjective, noun ˈkwɒd rɪt, -reɪt; verb ˈkwɒd reɪt/

Quadrate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in quadrate (aadeqrtu).

Definitions for quadrate

noun

1. a square.
2. something square or rectangular.
3. Zoology. one of a pair of bones in the skulls of many lower vertebrates, to which the lower jaw is articulated.

adjective

1. square or rectangular.
2. Zoology. of or relating to the quadrate.
3. Heraldry. (of a cross) having an enlarged square at the junction of the limbs:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to conform or harmonize; adapt.

verb (used without object)

1. to agree; conform.

Origin of quadrate

1350-1400; Middle English quadrat (noun and adj.) Latin quadrātus (past participle of quadrāre to make square)

Examples for quadrate

But the side of a quadrate proposed in a number is oft times sought.

Here the first quadrate oy, is five times as great, as the second su.

For the rectangle of the segments, and the quadrate, are made of one side, and of the segments of the other.

But some magnitudes there are which have no common measure, as the Diagony of a quadrate and his side, 116.

The side of a quadrate given is many times in numbers sought.

And by the same argument it shall be treble unto the quadrate or square of ei.

This is the rate of a quadrate with a rectangle and a quadrate.

And a Rhomboides is so opposed to an oblong, as a Rhombus is to a quadrate.

The comparison or rate of a quadrate with a rectangle is first.

Lastly, to the equalls adde the quadrate of the bisegment or halfe.