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
  • In August 2023, a 1,553-square-foot home on the 14600 block of Bronson Avenue in San Jose sold for $2,126,000, a price per square foot of $1,369.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Life Time Otay Ranch features a 26,000 square-foot workout floor with four studios for group classes, seven pickleball courts, three pools, a cafe and bar, a full spa and a kids academy with its own programming and basketball court.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Today these works are well defined by Mondrian’s legacy, with his rigid paintings of black-and-white grids, sprinkled with rectangular forms in red, yellow, and blue.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Each is hand-poured into a striking rectangular amber glass vessel and presented in an elegant red box that feels tailor-made for gifting.
    Michael Stefanov, Robb Report, 14 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 22 Oct. 2025.

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