(n.) A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
(n.) A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.
Example Sentences:
(1) zygapophysiales structurally represent a force locked, kinematically contrained four-bar-chain (link quadrangle).
(2) This investigation examined how subjects perceived and localized the centers of irregular quadrangles.
(3) Chile will attack during their last-16 match against Brazil in Belo Horizonte because not to do so would be to ignore their own most obvious asset, that supremely mobile midfield-into-attack quadrangle.
(4) Based on intraoperative TEE findings, corrective procedures included quadrangle resection posterior leaflet with Carpentier ring in four, chordal shortening and chordal transfer anterior leaflet in four, flexible Duran ring for annular dilatation in two, closure of all atrial septal defects (ASD) with pericardial patch in secundum and sinus venosis type (ligation of small anomalous vein in one), and Dacron patch in primum type, myomectomy for HOC and reconstruction of the tricuspid annulus with Duran ring in Ebstein's anomaly.
(5) Biomechanical analysis of the stomatognathic system yields that the linkage between posterior and anterior guidance can be modelled by a link quadrangle (throttle crank) with closed linkage.
(6) The vast quadrangle at the centre of a sprawling complex of ministerial offices in Delhi has become a rubbish dump for broken furniture, discarded water coolers, broken air conditioners, abandoned telephones and large bags of discarded paper.
(7) On the basis of some more specific findings, we suggest that it is not as much the number of correlation quadrangles that determines the saliency of a regularity as it is the degree to which they facilitate or "bootstrap" each other.
(8) Misjudgement of orientation is demonstrated in drawings of tilted quadrangles with parallel diagonals.
(9) The superior tumors are characterized by the angle between the 2nd 3rd SOV segments not exceeding 100 degrees and by the quadrangle surface of 419 mm2 in average.
(10) Quadrangles with parallel LS-axes were systematically judged as differently tilted according to the difference in the orientation of their axes of balance.
(11) The sale, to Quadrangle Capital Partners, marks a winding down of Dennis's decade-long publishing foray into the US, which started with the launch of Maxim in 1997.
(12) In 2007 Dennis Publishing sold its US magazine interests including Maxim, Stuff and Blender to private equity partners Quadrangle Capital Partners, who own Alpha Media , for a price reported at the time to be about $240m (£121m).
(13) On Saxon Square, a pristine quadrangle of shops and cafes at the northern edge of town, I meet Dee and Graham Snape, 68 and 71 respectively, having coffee in the sunshine.
(14) Gradually the dramatic triangle begins to emerge – or is it a quadrangle?
(15) This mechanism can approximately be replaced by a link quadrangle and mapped by a standard gear.
(16) In addition to the first-order regularities of orientational uniformity and midpoint collinearity (Jenkins, 1983), bilateral symmetry (BS) gives rise to second-order relations between two pairs of symmetric elements (represented by correlation quadrangles).
(17) Judgements were also influenced by the orientation of an 'axis of balance', which ran through the centre of gravity and the lowermost apex of the quadrangle.
(18) The federal government has authorized an additional 9m reais ($2.36m) to the mines ministry for an audit of dams in the so-called iron quadrangle, the heavily mined region in Minas Gerais where the Samarco mine operates.
(19) In well-functioning families, this tetrad or quadrangle is wide-spread in the first pair of siblings in the family and tends to be more common in same-sex pairs, suggesting that sibling deidentification is designed to mitigate the relatively intense sibling rivalry characteristic of these pairs and hence to maintain family harmony.
(20) The main characteristic determining estimated orientation of the quadrangles was the axis from which the sum of the squared distances to each point of the figure was minimal (the LS-axis).
Quadrangular
Definition:
(a.) Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quadrangular flaps for the neocomissure and for the coverage of the fingers were successfully used even with skeletal deviations.
(2) The technical aspects of the intraoral quadrangular Le Fort II osteotomy are described, and the anesthetic technique, blood loss, operating time, intraoperative and postoperative complications, length of hospitalization, and length of fixation in seven cases are reported.
(3) The indication for a quadrangular osteotomy includes a hypoplastic maxilla with retruded infra-orbital rims and infra-orbital area, but with normal nose projection.
(4) By its portal branches the lobe seems to depend upon the left lobe of the liver and its arterial and portal inflow as well as its hepatic vein system are better than these of other segments of the liver; moreover this segment can be compared to a quadrangular pyramid which presents an external part, superficial with easy surgical access, and an internal part, deeper and very difficult to resect.
(5) In 1971, Kufner described the "quadrangular" osteotomy of the midface, which he used to correct asymmetry in patients with recession of the midface and a normal nasal skeleton.
(6) Between them echoes corresponding to the open disc appear, making a quadrangular figure.
(7) The conclusion is that the "quadrangular" osteotomy is a very satisfactory method for the aesthetic and functional rehabilitation of a certain group of midfacial anomalies.
(8) A one-month-old baby with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) type Ib underwent a total correction with a pedicled right atrial (RA) flap, which was made by incising the RA wall in a quadrangular configuration.
(9) Architectural characteristics of this complex osseous structure were noticed and the superimposition of the cross-sections by transparency could got the spindle shape of the medial pillar, more horizontal than the quadrangular and massive column of the lateral pillar.
(10) Bulging of the mandibular angle is considered to be unattractive in the Orient since it gives the face a quadrangular and muscular appearance.
(11) Thin (5-mm) sagittal high-field (1.5-T) MR images of the cerebellar hemispheres display (1) the superior, middle, and inferior cerebellar peduncles; (2) the primary white-matter branches to the hemispheric lobules including the central, anterior, and posterior quadrangular, superior and inferior semilunar, gracile, biventer, tonsil, and flocculus; and (3) several finer secondary white-matter branches to individual folia within the lobules.
(12) The results of a follow-up study of 17 patients who underwent a quadrangular osteotomy, are presented.
(13) These loops were always of a quadrangular-like shape with clockwise rotation.
(14) utilizes a quadrangular isoparametric and axi-symmetric element.
(15) The surface of a metal block made of an aluminium alloy is covered with narrow perpendicular grooves, which thus form an array of quadrangular pyramids touching base to base.
(16) Mg-containing calcium phosphate crystals including pseudocuboidal, rhombohedral shapes and groupings of quadrangular blades cubically arranged were found in human tooth enamel by scanning electron microscopy and by electron probe microanalysis.
(17) In this case, a 19-year-old woman requesting rhinoplasty exhibited facial anomalies: lack of quadrangular and lower lateral cartilages, small bony dorsum, underdeveloped aural cartilage, and infantile larynx and trachea.
(18) We present a technique for nipple-areolar reconstruction, which consists basically of hinging two quadrangular dermafat flaps together after denuding the entire area.
(19) Computed tomography scanning showed focal low attenuation in the left quadrangular lobule of the pons.
(20) Recognition of the quadrangular fragment may help determine the treatment protocol.