| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | quad·rate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kw d r t , -r t |
| NOUN: | 1a. A square or cube. b. An approximately square or cubic area, space, or object. 2. Zoology A bone or cartilaginous structure of the skull, joining the upper and lower jaws in birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having four sides and four angles; square or rectangular. 2. Zoology Of or being the quadrate bone or cartilage. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: quad·rat·ed, quad·rat·ing, quad·rates
Archaic To correspond; agree. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English quadrat, something square, from Latin quadrtum, from neuter past participle of quadrre, to make square, from quadrum, square. See kwetwer- in Appendix I.
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