Quadrate vs Quadrat - What's the difference?
quadrate | quadrat |
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
* Foxe
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
* 1646-72 , , Pseudodoxia Epidemica , book 4, ch. 12:
(archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
* Howell
(archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
* Harvey
(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:
(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.
(archaic) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
(archaic) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
(archaic, ambitransitive) To square.
(archaic) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
* Edmund Burke
(sciences) An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc. While originally rectangular, modern quadrats can be rectangular, circular, irregular, etc. (e.g.: Krebs, C.J., 1999. Ecological Methodology. Addison-Welsey Educational Publishing, Inc., Menlo Park, California; Wheater, C.P., Bell, J.R., Cook, P.A., 2011. Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, England.)
(metal type, obsolete) A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
* 1683 , Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing. , v 2,
As nouns the difference between quadrate and quadrat
is that quadrate is while quadrat is square.quadrate
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate .
- The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.
- A quadrate , solid, wise man.
- A generical description quadrate to both.
Noun
(en noun)- At which command, the powers militant
- That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
Verb
(quadrat)- quadrating the circle
- not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason
- 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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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
1683. Probably from (etyl) cadrat or (etyl) . So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.Noun
(en noun)p 222–23:
- If his Title'' be ?hort, he ''Sets'' it in the middle of the ''Line'', by ''Setting Quadrats''''' on both ?ides: If his ''Title'' be long, he ''Sets'' the middle ''Line'' in the middle: If it make three or more ''Lines'', he ''Indents'' the fir?t with an m '''''Quadrat''''', and the other with two m '''''Quadrats .