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Definitions of SQUARE
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By Princeton University
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A figure having four equal sides and four right angles; the result reached by multiplying a number by itself; as, 4 is the square of 2; in a town or city, a four-sided space each of whose sides is a street; the distance along one of these sides; as, to walk three squares; an open space bounded by streets and used as a small park; as, Union Square; a mathematical instrument for measuring right angles.
Having four equal sides and four right angles; forming a right angle; as, a square corner; having a broad shape with straight outlines; as, square shoulders; true; upright; honest; just; as, a square deal; balanced; settled; as, our account is square; colloquially, full or satisfying; as, a square meal; changed from a unit of length to a unit of area bounded by four sides of the same length as the original unit of length; as, a square yard.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
A figure having four equal sides and four right angles; an area of four sides, with houses on each side; the content of a line squared; a mathematical instrument having one straight edge at right angles to another; rule; regularity; a square body of troops; the product of a number multiplied by itself.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
A figure having four equal sides and four right angles; a space of ground having four straight sides, with houses fronting inwards erected on at least three sides; the product of a number multiplied by itself; an instr. for drawing straight lines and tracing right angles; a body of troops in the form of a square; level; regularity; rule; conformity.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
n. [Latin] A rectilineal figure having four equal sides and four right angles ; - hence, that which is square or nearly so, or is reckoned by squares or square measure;-an area of four sides with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses;-also, an open place formed by the intersection of two or more streets;-in arithmetic and algebra, the product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; -a carpenter's or joiner's instrument, consisting of two flat rules joined perpendicularly at their extremities, so as to form a right angle ;-also, a rule fastened perpendicularly to the middle part of another, called from its form a T square;-hence, conformity ; regularity ; exactness of form ;-due proportion: justness in conduct or dealing ; - level ; equality.
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