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quadrature
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics , quadrature is a historical term which means determining area . Quadrature problems served as one of the main sources of problems in the development of calculus , and introduce important topics in mathematical analysis .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of making something square; squaring. 2 (context mathematics English) The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area. 3 The act or process of finding the indefinite ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quadrature \Quad"ra*ture\, n. [L. quadratura: cf. F. quadrature. See Quadrate , a.] (Math.) The act of squaring; 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 ...
Usage examples of quadrature.
Nay, Aristotle would not have missed the quadrature of the circle, if only baleful conflicts had spared the books of the ancients, who knew all the methods of nature.
A solution of the secular problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium 1,000,000 pounds sterling.
FM radiation is in ninety-degree quadrature with equal amplitudes and a high aperture efficiency.
But if he was very persistent, and the chase became too hot, it was easy to draw a red herring across the track, the aforesaid red herring generally taking the shape of one of those venerable questions, which, like the trisection of an angle, or the quadrature of a circle, or the secret of perpetual motion, shall never be finally solved.
Euen so after inuention, the principall and speciall rule, for an Architector is a quadrature, the same deuided into smales the harmonie and sweete consent of the building, setteth foorth it selfe, and the conuenient adiunctes, agreeable to theyr principall.
Aboue the which stood an vnequal quadrature three foot long, two foot broad, and six foote high.
The Grand Arcanum makes him master of gold and the light, which are at bottom the same thing, he has solved the problem of the quadrature of the circle, he directs the perpetual movement, and he possesses the philosophical stone.
The Square, turning upon itself, produces the circle equal to itself, and the circular movement of four equal angles turning around one point, is the quadrature of the circle.
Q Quadrature of the circle indicates the knowledge of the four vulgar elements, 629-m.
Triangulation and quadrature of the beacons works for navigationonly it follows its own rules.
Now, by following out the principles of the theory, we shall see that this cannot be the case, except when the moon is in quadrature with the sun.
After that, from June 1 to June 24, and from September 25 to October 16, Saturn in Capricorn, Jupiter in Aquarius, Mars in Scorpio, Venus in Pisces, Mercury for a month in Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces, the Moon in Aquarius, the Dragon's head in Libra: its tail in opposition following a conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury with a quadrature of Mars and Mercury, and the Dragon's head coinciding with a conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter.
In the first side of the Cube (id est the Chronoscopium Universalis) you can see eight wheels arranged in perennial cycles represent the Calendars of Julius and of Gregory, and when recur the Sundays and the Epacts, and the Solar Circle, and the Moveable and Paschal Feasts, and novilunes and plenilunes, quadratures of the sun and moon.