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
  • There’s a 1,850 square-foot community amenity space, 25,000 square feet of waterfront open space and pier access and all stages have the technological infrastructure to adapt to virtual productions.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The building is expected to have 226 apartments, 102,000 square feet of office space, and about 11,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • All of the pieces—a mini baking sheet, muffin tin, cooling rack, and small rectangular pan for snacking cakes or even tiny lasagnas, will fit inside a toaster oven.
    Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Available now and starting at $140, the table linen collection includes a napkin set as well a tablecloth in either a rectangular or square silhouette.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But da Costa and his team, as part of the Microns project, a large-scale effort to fully map out a 1-cubic-millimeter portion of a mouse’s visual cortex, discovered that inhibitory neurons are very specific in choosing what cells to inhibit.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In space launches, every kilogram and cubic centimetre is precious.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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