·adj The quadrate bone.
II. Quadrate ·adj Squared; suited; correspondent.
III. Quadrate ·adj Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
IV. Quadrate ·adj Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
V. Quadrate ·vt To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
VI. Quadrate ·adj Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
VII. Quadrate ·adj A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
VIII. Quadrate ·adj An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. ·see the Note under Aspect, 6.
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