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Quadrate

Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

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Square 84% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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Square 84% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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Cube 76% connected

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

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Foursquare 76% connected

Having four sides and four equal angles.

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Square 76% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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Quadratic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.

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Quadratic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.

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Acre noun · 78% connection

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…

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Antiparallels n. pl. · 78% connection

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

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Are noun · 78% connection

The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…

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Biquadrate noun · 78% connection

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

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Breve noun · 78% connection

A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerl…

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Converse noun · 78% connection

A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the su…

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Couple adjective · 78% connection

Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around paralle…

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Decagon noun · 78% connection

A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angl…

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East noun · 78% connection

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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Geometrical regularity noun · 78% connection

a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles

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Lozenge noun · 78% connection

A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

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Oblique adjective · 78% connection

slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of th…

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Orthocenter noun · 78% connection

That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mu…

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Parallel adjective · 78% connection

being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two…

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Parallelogram noun · 78% connection

A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usag…

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Perpendicular noun · 78% connection

A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.

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Platoon noun · 78% connection

Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

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