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quadrilateral

[kwod-ruh-lat-er-uhl] / ˌkwɒd rəˈlæt ər əl /
NOUN
quadrangle
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The chip they developed can be reconfigured by adjusting the voltages of electrodes, which creates various light propagation paths in the quadrilateral network.

From Science Daily Oct. 11, 2023

Oh, and I do have one final question: Doesn’t the Christian quadrilateral protect us from the false dichotomies you imply?

From Washington Times Jun. 20, 2023

China's East China Sea exercises coincide with a quadrilateral naval exercise in the Philippine Sea that started on Friday involving the United States, Japan, Canada and France.

From Reuters Jun. 13, 2023

It wasn’t just the odd, quadrilateral shape of the plot that presented difficulties.

From Washington Post May 17, 2019

“But,” 1 said, “in the old days the Austrians were always whipped in the quadrilateral around Verona. They let them come down onto the plain and whipped them there.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

In the experiment, subjects were shown six quadrilaterals and asked to detect the one that was unlike the others.

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2022

Note this is a characteristic of rectangles, but not other quadrilaterals.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

I showed that for certain shapes—for kites, which are quadrilaterals with bilateral symmetry—you can escape.

From Scientific American Jan. 17, 2018

Even when considering the Suprematist works, the Americans have typically isolated the most austere examples — the black-and-white squares, as opposed to the more colorful arrangements of floating, irregular quadrilaterals at Gagosian.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2011

Rectilinear figures cannot be divided into triangles and quadrilaterals because there are rectilinear figures which have more than four sides.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various




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