3. (Anat.)
Defn: The quadrate bone.
QUADRATE
Quad"rate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quadrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quadrating.] Etym: [See Quadrate, a.]
Defn: To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; — followed by
with. [Archaic]
The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate
with their theories. Burke.
QUADRATE
Quad"rate, v. t.
Defn: To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
QUADRATIC
Quad*rat"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. quadratique.]
1. Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
2. (Crystallog.)
Defn: Tetragonal.