(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).
Trapezoid
Definition:
(n.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
(n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.
(a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proenkephalin A-related immunoreactive neuronal perikarya were detected in the central gray, reticular formation, nucleus raphes, trapezoid body, nucleus parabrachialis lateralis and medialis, nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus dorsalis nervi vagi, and in the nucleus tractus solitarii.
(2) From the tissue distribution of 800 microCi MAb E48, the absorbed cumulative radiation doses of tumour and various organs were calculated using the trapezoid integration method for the area under the curve.
(3) The responses of afferents were further studied using sinusoidal and trapezoidal stimuli aligned as closely as possible with the orientation of their response vector.
(4) The trapezoidal shape of the vertebrae and scarring of the soft tissues within the concavity made correction difficult.
(5) From plasma drug concentration-time data, best estimates for the bioavailability parameters of peak plasma phenobarbital concentration (Cmax) and time to peak concentration (tmax) were obtained by curve fitting and area under the plasma drug concentration-time curve (AUC) computed with the trapezoid rule.
(6) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(7) DYN B cell bodies were present in nonpyramidal cells of neo- and allocortices, medium-sized cells of the caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens, lateral part of the central nucleus of the amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, preoptic area, and in sectors of nearly every hypothalamic nucleus and area, medial pretectal area, and nucleus of the optic tract, periaqueductal gray, raphe nuclei, cuneiform nucleus, sagulum, retrorubral nucleus, peripeduncular nucleus, lateral terminal nucleus, pedunculopontine nucleus, mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus, parabigeminal nucleus, dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus, lateral superior olivary nucleus, superior paraolivary nucleus, medial superior olivary nucleus, ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body, lateral dorsal tegmental nucleus, accessory trigeminal nucleus, solitary nucleus, nucleus ambiguus, paratrigeminal nucleus, area postrema, lateral reticular nucleus, and ventrolateral region of the reticular formation.
(8) Degenerative changes in the scapho-trapezial-trapezoidal (ST) joint may occur as an isolated process or more frequently as a dominant part of pantrapezial degenerative joint affections.
(9) The majority of units were recorded in the ventral component of the trapezoid body.
(10) They can be summarized as: mesial shifting of the maxilla, dimensional increase of the mandibular body, ovoidal upper arch with a deeper palatal vault, tapering or trapezoidal lower arch.
(11) The AUC-integrated concentration was significantly higher than the AUC-trapezoid.
(12) Principal cells in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) are believed to be critical components in the circuit subserving sound localization.
(13) The lowest threshold values for current strength, energy and charge were observed when defibrillating the heart by means of rectangular impulses and especially by trapezoidal impulses with ascending slope.
(14) That means that rectangular or trapezoidal impulses with an ascending slope may be most conveniently used for cardiac defibrillation.
(15) Two femoral neck fractures ten years following Trapezoidal-28 THA have recently been referred to our clinic.
(16) Therefore, the velocity profile is "trapezoidal" rather than parabolic at all times during the pulsation period.
(17) Trapezoidal and triangular gradient lobe shapes are analyzed.
(18) The authors report a case of posterior dislocation of the trapezoid bone together with the second metacarpal.
(19) The wrist motion remaining after simulated arthrodeses was as follows: capitate-hamate: flexion (Flx) 98%, extension (Ext) 92%, ulnar deviation (UD) 96%, radial deviation (RD) 90%; scaphoid-lunate: Flx 97%, Ext 91%, UD 90%, RD 91%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid: Flx 86%, Ext 88%, UD 67%, RD 69%; scaphoid-lunate-triquetrum: Flx 91%, Ext 82%, UD 86%, RD 70%; capitate-lunate: Flx 70%, Ext 59%, UD 89%, RD 79%; capitate-hamate-triquetrum: Flx 88%, Ext 79%, UD 88%, RD 81%; hamate-triquetrum: Flx 90%, Ext 85%, UD 89%, RD 94%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid-capitate: Flx 85%, Ext 77%, UD 64%, RD 57%.
(20) The trapezoid compression frame is recommended as an alternative to conventional methods of treating unstable fractures and dislocations of the pelvic girdle.