as in square
having four equal sides and four right angles the four museum buildings surround a quadrate courtyard that is formally landscaped

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Recent Examples of quadrate Its skull also showed reduced articulations between key bones and a shallow quadrate angle, both of which are associated with piscivory. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
  • The second half, which will come years later, is set to include another 37,500-square-foot hangar and 28 small aircraft T-hangars of at least 1,200 square feet each.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Built in 1925, the 1,926-square-foot house had some foundation issues that would need to be addressed.
    Mark Kreidler, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The statues were placed on rectangular stone platforms called ahu, which serve as tombs.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The Bonaire cabin kit caught our eye for its modern, rectangular shape that takes inspiration from vacation resort cabins.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Developed by design studio Quartostile, the innovative exterior is the result of careful research aimed at optimizing every available cubic inch within the 300 GT limit.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
  • As for the vacuum system, the creators say the R2 uses an industrial-grade motor with a special airflow design to lift dirt and pet hair embedded in carpet fibers, delivering 115 AW of vacuum power and 48 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of suction.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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