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1. Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
2. <chemistry> Tetragonal.
3. <mathematics> Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
Origin: Cf. F. Quadratique.
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