Definition of square

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Square (n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc..

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Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.
Tesseraic :: Tesseraic (a.) Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated.
Tab :: Tab (n.) A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border..
Check :: Check (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure..
Crossjack :: Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast..
Waney :: Waney (n.) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
Atlas :: Atlas (n.) A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio..
Student :: Studding sail () A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail..
Biquadrate :: Biquadrate (n.) The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4..
Tetragonal :: Tetragonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers..
Sesquiplicate :: Sesquiplicate (a.) Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::Ăb3:Ăb'3..
Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Set in squares.
Tenter :: Tenter (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square..
Quadratic :: Quadratic (a.) Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square..
Breve :: Breve (n.) A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service..
Square :: Square (n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts..
Township :: Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..
Piazza :: Piazza (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda..
Tessellate :: Tessellate (v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
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