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quadrilateral

[kwod-ruh-lat-er-uhl] / ˌkwɒd rəˈlæt ər əl /
NOUN
quadrangle
Synonyms


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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

There are yet more triangles and quadrilaterals of affection, not always clearly mapped in Bradshaw’s vigorous trimming of the text.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

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

Bouvard, with his head thrown back, followed with difficulty the angles, quadrilaterals, and pentagons, which it is necessary to imagine in order to make yourself at home in the sky.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert


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