perfect square

noun

, Mathematics.

First recorded in 1935–40

It is nearly a perfect square in shape, and each side of the square is a little over six miles long.

It measured not less than 120 feet by 110, forming nearly a perfect square.

This was a perfect square twenty cubits long and twenty broad.

The six windows on the ground floor are topped with round arches, and coming up the drive the house seems a perfect square.

The town forms an almost perfect square, and has clean and well-macadamized streets.

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