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quadrilateral
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having four sides [syn: four-sided ] n. a four-sided polygon [syn: quadrangle , tetragon ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quadrilateral \Quad`ri*lat"er*al\, a. [L. quadrilaterus: cf. F. quadrilat[`e]re, quadrilat['e]ral. See Quadri- and Lateral .] Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Euclidean plane geometry , a quadrilateral is a polygon with four edges (or sides) and four vertices or corners. Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used, by analogy with triangle , and sometimes tetragon for consistency with pentagon (5-sided), hexagon ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"four-sided," 1640s, with -al (1) + Latin quadrilaterus , from quadri- "four" (see quadri- ) + latus (genitive lateris ) "side" (see oblate (n.)). As an adjective from 1650s. Related: Quadrilaterally .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. having four sides. n. 1 A polygon with four sides. 2 An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.
Usage examples of quadrilateral.
If a campus was a green quadrilateral described by hulking, hederated Gothics, then this was a campus.
The broadest part of Moor Fields, directly before Bedlam, had been outlined with a quadrilateral, and striped with a St.
It was a quadrilateral of the kind the Greeks termed a trapezium, having no side parallel to any other.
The square proved not to be a square, more a deformed cyclic quadrilateral, but it implied all the necessary elements of a public urban space.
Every scrap of land in the town was owned by the Church, and the Holy Surveyors of Rome had (or so Jack phant’sied) come out here and planted Trinitarian transits on the land that had been miraculously reclaimed from Lake Texcoco and hung holy plumb-bobs made of saints’ skulls and stretched cords of spun angels’ hair, driven crucifixes into the ground at strategickal Vertices, and platted the land into quadrilaterals, each one butted snugly against the next.
There were arcs, circles, quadrilaterals of annihilation, growing always, that sank downwards through the basic stone.