(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).
Rectangle
Definition:
(n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
(a.) Rectangular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron micrographs of negatively stained hexamers show a characteristic curvilinear, equilateral triangle of 12 nm in diameter (top view) and a rectangle measuring 10 x 12 nm (side view).
(2) Slice in half lengthways and then cut each half into six short rectangles.
(3) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
(4) Asked about Samsung's reaction to the verdict, in which it said it was "unfortunate that patent law allows the patenting of rectangles with rounded corners", Hogan responded that "we didn't look at any singular aspect" of the devices when considering Apple's "trade dress" complaints of physical similarity between the iPhone and iPad and various Samsung devices.
(5) The Hartshill rectangle avoids the problems of overlapping L rods and gives increased stability and correction of rotation.
(6) The Hartshill rectangle, a metal frame fixed to the laminae by sublaminar wires, has been used in 50 cases.
(7) The size sequence of the molar teeth in three genera, including seven species, of the Cercopithecidae was examined on the basis of mesiodistal and buccolingual crown diameters, and rectangle measurements (mesiodistal d. X buccolingual d.).
(8) The ratios between the lengths of the sides of the rectangles were the same in both series, but in one series the size of the rectangles covaried with the ratio between length and width, as in Godkewitsch's 1974 study, and in the other series the rectangles were of equal area.
(9) The approximate mitral orifice was covered by a 44 x 40 mm rectangle and the approximate tricuspid orifice was covered by a 59 x 41 mm rectangle.
(10) Tawane’s family was shown to a rectangle of sand in block E5 of Hagadera.
(11) Roll out the dough into a rectangle, says the recipe.
(12) Three views can be observed and interpreted: (a) a square face which, in situ, is junctionally associated with the transverse tubule or junctional face membrane; (b) a rectangle equivalent to the side view; and (c) a diamond shape equivalent to the side view, of which the base portion appears to be equivalent to the transmembrane segment.
(13) They were faster on an arrow pointing up the higher it was in the rectangle, and they were faster on an arrow pointing down the lower it was in the rectangle.
(14) Many of the nevocytic nevi identified in these rectangles had the clinical features of dysplastic nevi.
(15) Calsequestrin has been precipitated with calcium into five different crystal forms: cruciform twins, flat rectangles, thin needles, bipyramids, rectangular prisms, and a sixth precrystalline form, spheres.
(16) 3 groups of 3 men (high, medium, low perceivers) reported more reversals for trapezoids than rectangles.
(17) In the first 45 cases, a simple, flat, unwelded rectangle was used, and in the last 26 the Hartshill rectangle was employed.
(18) The more troubling issue, though, is that this calculation assumes that as the tall-skinny rectangle gets shorter, it does not get wider.
(19) The present study examined possible hemispheric differences in discriminations of different sizes of geometric shapes (rectangles) and different meanings of words, and determined whether left and right hemisphere derived visual event related potentials (ERPs) were related to performance.
(20) First, we find that the ellipsoid and rectangle shapes fit the data with the same precision as the variance in repeated threshold measurements.