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A quadrate; a square.

The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable.

The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.

A quadrate; a square.

The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable.

The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.

Act of squaring; act of finding a square of equal area with a given curvilinear figure; position of a heavenly body when 90° distant from another.

The act of squaring; the reducing of a figure to a square; a quadrate distance of 90 of a heavenly body from another, specially of the moon from the sun.

The act of squaring; the reducing of a figure to a square; in astron., the position of a heavenly body, when the lines from the earth to the moon in its first and last quarters.

n. The act of squaring or reducing to a square ; -the finding of a square having the same area as a given curvilinear figure, as a circle; -the position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it ninety degrees ;- hence, the first and last quarters of the moon.