📚 noun • entry_id 31824
quadrature
/ˈkwɒd.ɹəˌtjʊə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuadratura
The process of making something square; squaring.
cuadratura
The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area.
1976, D. T. Whiteside (editor), The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, Volume 7: 1691-1695, Cambridge University Press, page 3, Craige was then on the point of publishing a short…
cuadratura
A situation in which the directions of two celestial bodies (or a celestial body and the Sun) form a right angle from the perspective of the observer.
When the Moon is in quadrature, it appears in the sky as a half-moon.
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