Index of English words, starting with "qu"

(1) - Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.
(2) - Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.

(1) - Quadrate (v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
(2) - Quadrate (a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
(3) - Quadrate (a.) The quadrate bone.
(4) - Quadrate (a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.
(5) - Quadrate (a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
(6) - Quadrate (a.) Squared; suited; correspondent.
(7) - Quadrate (a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
(8) - Quadrate (a.) Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
(9) - Quadrate (a.) Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

(1) - Quadratic (a.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
(2) - Quadratic (a.) Tetragonal.
(3) - Quadratic (a.) Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.

(1) - Quadratics (n.) That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.