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Answer for the clue "Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles ", 6 letters:
square

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a decent meal/a square meal ( also a proper meal British English ) (= with enough good food to satisfy you ) ▪ I hadn’t had a decent meal in days. a square chin ▪ A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "fairly, honestly," from square (adj.). From 1630s as "directly, in line." Sense of "completely" is American-English, colloquial, by 1862.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the United States construction industry, and was historically used in Australia . One square is equal to 100 square feet . Examples where the unit is used are roofing shingles, metal roofing, vinyl ...

Usage examples of square.

So there they abode a space looking down on the square and its throng, and the bells, which had been ringing when they came up, now ceased a while.

It still reverberated, though Ilna had noticed that the acoustics of this great square room were wretchedly bad.

Peslar Square, and you could convince an adjudicator that your charge was reasonable, the adjudicator could order your alibi archive or mine unlocked for the time span in question, which would prove that I am innocent.

A horse down with the aftosa need a sight of heroin to ease his pain and maybe some of that heroin take off across the lonesome prairie and whinny in Washington Square.

As he explained in Collected Words, there were a number of technical problems to be allowed for in the poster: Because the sheet was folded three times to bring it to the square shape for insertion into the album, the composition was interestingly complicated by the need to consider it as a series of subsidiary compositions.

The Please Please Me album cover had been taken on the stairwell at EMI Manchester Square by the veteran photographer Angus McBean.

Flewelling Alec and Micum met Myrhini in a darkened square near Hind Street.

With Seregil hunkered down beside him, Alec scooped out the sand and uncovered a square niche sunk into the stone.

Paul found himself wishing he did not have quite such a prominent alestake after all, but he took a deep breath, squared his shoulders with resolution, and scurried inside.

The authentic city-man, to whom all properly planned Nature is of cement evenly marked out in squares, may for half an hour be able to admire the alienage of a Vermont valley with woods sloping up to a stalwart peak, even though he may not be sure whether the trees are date-palms or monkey-puzzles, and whether the hazy mountain is built of reinforced concrete or merely green-painted brick.

Since there can be only as many rows as there are letters in the alphabet, the tableau is square.

It was no more than ten foot square, low-ceilinged with a solitary window set high in the wall, which gave it the ambience of a dungeon.

From half an hour after training, to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards, it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV - a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis.

The city covers about a zillion square miles of desert, but half of that is perched on inaccessible crags that even Angelites avoid.

It stared above his head at one of its fellows on the opposite side of the square apse, but Yama fancied that he saw its eyes flicker toward him for an instant.