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
  • All iPhone 17s come with a square sensor for the front-facing camera that the company says allows for multiple photo orientations when used for selfies.
    James Powel, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Its square neck frames your face and the smocked material stretches to stay comfortable for all-day wear.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The handbag has a rectangular shape similar to a vintage doctor’s bag, with a compact mirror hanging from a chain on the side.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The extra-large, rectangular shape offers enough space for long lengths and fluffy curls, while the strong, extra-long teeth form a lock that secures every last strand.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Every cubic meter of air contains anywhere from 10 to 10 million microbes, depending on the altitude, location, season and time of day.
    Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The electric fleet is delivering high-performance demolition across a 25,000 cubic meter site.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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