different between quadrant vs quadrate

English

Alternative forms

• quadraunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadrantem, accusative singular of quadr?ns (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kw?d?r?nt, IPA^(key): /?kw?d.??nt/

Noun

quadrant (plural quadrants)

1. One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
2. (mathematics) One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
3. (geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
4. (nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
5. (college basketball) One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.

Translations

See also

• octant
• sextant

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quadr?ns (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kw??d?ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kw??d?an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kwa?d?ant/

Noun

quadrant m (plural quadrants)

1. quadrant

Further reading

• “quadrant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “quadrant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “quadrant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quadrant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin quadr?ns (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

Noun

quadrant m (plural quadrants)

1. quadrant

Further reading

• “quadrant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

quadrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of quadr?

English

Alternative forms

• quadrat (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English quadrat, from Old French quadrat (“a square”), from Latin quadr?tus (“square”), past participle of quadr? (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /?kw?d??t/, /?kw?d?e?t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /kw?d??e?t/
  • Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments

     Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
   • 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:

     The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.

3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
   • 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight

     a quadrat, solid, wise man

4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
   • 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

     a generical description quadrate to both

Related terms

• quadratic
• quadration
• quadrature

Noun

quadrate (plural quadrates)

1. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI:

     At which command, the powers militant

     That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.

2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

Verb

quadrate (third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
3. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.

   quadrating the circle

4. (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).

   not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.

   • In short I am resolved, from this instance, never to give way to the weakness of human nature more, nor to think anything virtue which doth not exactly quadrate with the unerring rule of right.

Further reading

• quadrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• quadrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• quadrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• arquated

Italian

Adjective

quadrate

1. feminine plural of quadrato

Latin

Etymology

From quadr? (“make square”), from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?dra?.te?/, [k?ä?d??ä?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa?dra.te/, [kw??d????t??]

Adverb

quadr?t? (not comparable)

1. fourfold, four times

Related terms

References

• quadrate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette