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adj. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. 'Squared; suited; correspondent. Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.

 - n. (Geom.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. (Astrol.) An ...