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
  • For comparison, the IKEA in Portland, Oregon, is roughly 280,000 square feet with 1,200 parking spots outside, while the new Beaverton location fits into a shopping strip with just a few stalls for parking.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 26 July 2025
  • It was built in 1923 and has a living area of 1,090 square feet.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • For example, a set of blue chairs at the far end of a rectangular garden will make the space feel larger than a set of red chairs in the same place.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2025
  • Save on runners and rectangular options starting at $33.
    Ali Faccenda, People.com, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Early on July 4, the Guadalupe River at Kerrville was flowing at 3 cubic feet per second.
    Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 12 July 2025
  • Up close, with its apertures open, the T.50 looks both fabulously exotic and a masterpiece of packaging, somehow squeezing three people, 10.2 cubic feet of luggage space, and a V-12 engine into a footprint similar to a Porsche Boxster.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 9 July 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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