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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
squared
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I like the squared corners better than the rounded ones.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Designing into a boundless, regular, squared grid, let black represent the occupation of any square.
▪ Effectively the spreadsheet consists of a large, anywhere from 65,000 cells to 2 million or more, sheet of squared paper.
▪ Excluding the few outliers, we can calculate the square root of the average squared error over all subjects for each repetition.
▪ Price volatility for each week was measured as the square root of the average of daily squared price changes.
▪ That is, that line which minimizes the sum of squared deviations from the line. 4.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squared

Square \Square\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squared (skw[^a]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Squaring.] [Cf. OF. escarrer, esquarrer. See Square, n.]

  1. To form with four equal sides and four right angles.
    --Spenser.

  2. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square masons' work.

  3. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
    --Shak.

  4. To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.

    Square my trial To my proportioned strength.
    --Milton.

  5. To make even, so as to leave no remainder or difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.

  6. (Math.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.

  7. (Astrol.) To hold a quartile position respecting.

    The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales.
    --Creech.

  8. (Naut.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.

    To square one's shoulders, to raise the shoulders so as to give them a square appearance, -- a movement expressing contempt or dislike.
    --Sir W. Scott.

    To square the circle (Math.), to determine the exact contents of a circle in square measure. The solution of this famous problem is now generally admitted to be impossible.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
squared

late 14c., "made square," past participle adjective from square (v.). Meaning "drawn up in squares" is from 1660s. Of numbers, "multiplied by itself," from 1550s.

Wiktionary
squared

  1. (rft-sense: English) (context mathematics English) raise to the second power. v

  2. (en-past of: square)

WordNet
squared

adj. having been made square

Usage examples of "squared".

Our Ancient Brethren who built the Temples at Jerusalem, with many myriad blows felled, hewed, and squared the cedars, and quarried the stones, and carved the intricate ornaments, which were to be the Temples.

Like a building well squared and levelled, you are to be firm and steadfast in your convictions of right and justice.

He sniffed them, squared them up in his hand, turned and vanished through the left-hand gate.

Leibniz, and squared off before Daniel, forcing his features into a simulacrum of a smile.

The opposite end of the arm is linked to a pump rod consisting of several tree-trunks squared off and bound together with iron bands, plunging into the earth and pulling on giant sucking and splurging equipment too deep down for Daniel to see.

Walaricus had a tidy look about it, everything squared off, the lintels painted with intertwined spirals and linked circles flowering into wreaths and the tower decorated with a carved tree on each face, painted silver.

Zacharias glanced at him in surprise and, with an effort, steadied his breathing and squared his shoulders like a man preparing for battle.

I trod through the crimson-walled entrance hall over the black-and-white squared floor and through into the inner hall and up the historic staircase in a river of other guests.