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quadrilateral

[kwod-ruh-lat-er-uhl] / ˌkwɒd rəˈlæt ər əl /
NOUN
quadrangle
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The researchers showed that the chip can be used to perform what is known as positive real matrix computation, verifying the feasibility of this in a quadrilateral MZI network for the first time.

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

What we call a ring in boxing is actually a quadrilateral, a shape with corners.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2023

Morrison is in the United States to attend the quadrilateral security dialogue, made up of India, Japan, the United States and Australia - which convenes later this week.

From Reuters Sep. 22, 2021

“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

The fourth book deals with the circle in its relations to inscribed and circumscribed triangles, quadrilaterals and regular polygons.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various




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