Definition of quadratenext
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 lot size of the property measures 7,872 square feet.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • That amount is enough to flood 578 square miles with a foot of water.
    Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The bag keeps its shape with the rigid bottom compartment and top zipper, designed to create a rectangular opening for easier packing.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The memorial consists of more than 800 rectangular steel pillars, each representing a different county in which a lynching took place.
    Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The acquisition brings 335,000 customers, nearly 5,900 miles of pipeline infrastructure and annual natural gas consumption of 60 billion cubic feet.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The space between the headlands would be filled with nearly 1 million cubic yards of sand taken from ocean deposits.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.

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