Definition of quadrate

• a. - Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
• a. - Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
• a. - Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
• a. - Squared; suited; correspondent.
• a. - A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
• a. - An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.
• a. - The quadrate bone.
• a. - To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
• v. t. - To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.