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Definition of "quadrature" []

  • The process of making something square. (noun)
  • Mathematics The process of constructing a square equal in area to a given surface. (noun)
  • Astronomy A configuration in which the position of one celestial body is 90° from another celestial body, as measured from a third. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "quadrature" in a sentence
  • "(A quadrature is the inverse problem, that of determining the fluents when the fluxions are given.)"
  • "More curious than his quadrature is his name; what are we to make of it?"
  • "The error by Archimedes is ultimately comparable to the use of that fallacy of the notion of quadrature which was already implicit in the Aristotelean presumption expressed by"