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
  • There are more than 2,000 species in the 16,000-square-foot Orchid Center, the largest collection of its kind in the United States.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The move comes as the company doubles down on its production capabilities, recently opening a 10,000-plus square foot creative campus in Los Angeles in an effort to expand creative and brand-facing capabilities and provide space for collaborating artists to work onsite.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • With 10 golden rectangular reminders looming in the rafters, the Denver Pioneers made a championship accomplishment seem like a feat before the feat.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
  • One team member mistakenly purchased a rectangular sandwich loaf at one bakery.
    Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • One cubic meter of ice holds about 93 kilowatt-hours of cooling capacity, comparable in energy to a large chemical battery pack but at a fraction of the cost and without degradation over charge cycles.
    Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Birol said the other current energy crisis, involving natural gas, is worse than Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which cost the world 75 billion cubic meters of gas per day compared with the 140 billion cubic meters being lost daily now.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2026

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.

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