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Quadrant vs Quadrate - What's the difference?

quadrant | quadrate |

In geometry terms the difference between quadrant and quadrate

is that quadrant is one fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90° while quadrate is a plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

As nouns the difference between quadrant and quadrate

is that quadrant is one of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines while quadrate is a plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

As an adjective quadrate is

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

As a verb quadrate is

to adjust (a gun) on its carriage.

quadrant

English

(wikipedia quadrant)

Alternative forms

* quadraunt (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
  • (mathematics) The four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
  • (geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
  • (nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.

    • See also

    * octant * sextant ----

    quadrate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
  • * Foxe
    • Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate .
  • Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
  • * 1646-72 , , 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.
  • (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
  • * Howell
    • A quadrate , solid, wise man.
  • (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
  • * Harvey
    • A generical description quadrate to both.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book VI:
    • At which command, the powers militant
    That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
  • (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
  • (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

    • Verb

    (quadrat)
  • (archaic) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
  • (archaic) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
  • (archaic, ambitransitive) To square.
    • quadrating the circle
  • (archaic) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
    • not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason
  • * Edmund Burke
    • 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.

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