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Quadrate   Listen
adjective
Quadrate  adj.  
1.
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. "Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate."
2.
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers."
3.
Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. (Archaic) " A quadrate, solid, wise man."
4.
Squared; suited; correspondent. (Archaic) " A generical description quadrate to both."
Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.





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