What is "quadrate"

Quadrate \Quad"rate\, a. [L. quadratus squared, p. p. of quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an arrow, Square.]

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

   Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.
   --Foxe.

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. `` Quadrate and cubical numbers.''
   --Sir T. Browne.

3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] `` A quadrate, solid, wise man.''
   --Howell.

4. Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] `` A generical description quadrate to both.''
   --Harvey.

   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.

Quadrate \Quad"rate\, n. [L. quadratum. See Quadrate, a.]

1. (Geom.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

   At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
   --Milton.

2. (Astrol.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90[deg], or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.

3. (Anat.) The quadrate bone.

Quadrate \Quad"rate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quadrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Quadrating.] [See Quadrate,

1. ] To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with. [Archaic]

   The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories.
   --Burke.

Quadrate \Quad"rate\, v. t. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

1. 1 Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. 2 Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. 3 (context archaic English) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. 4 (context archaic English) Squared; suited; correspondent. n. 1 (context geometry English) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. 2 (context astrology English) An aspect of the heavenly body in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. 3 (context anatomy English) The quadrate bone. v

2. 1 (context archaic transitive English) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage. 2 (context archaic transitive English) To train (a gun) for horizontal fire. 3 (context archaic ambitransitive English) To square. 4 (context archaic transitive English) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).

1. adj. having four sides and four angles

2. n. a cubelike object

3. a square-shaped object

Quadrate may refer to:

• Quadrate bone
• Quadrate (heraldry)
• Quadrate lobe of liver

In heraldry, an ordinary is described as quadrate (or more fully nowy quadrate) when it has a square central boss.

shield.png|Shield of Durham University: Argent, a cross paty quadrate gules; on a canton azure a chevron or between three lions rampant argent. 09.03 -markinch.jpg|Banner of the Burgh of Markinch, Scotland: Gules, on a cross nowy quadrate argent a cock gules. paty quadrate wiki.jpg|Gules, a cross paty quadrate or, charged with five mullets of six points gules: a chief arched ermine charged with two Cornish choughs proper - Vickers, England

Only certain ordinaries are usually shown quadrate: the cross, the pale, and the fess – but not, for example, a bordure or chevron.

A saltire quadrate has the square lozengeways:

saltire wiki.jpg|Arms of North West Province, South Africa: Per saltire gules and azure, a saltire quadrate vert, fimbriated argent ...