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quadrangle

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quad⋅ran⋅gle

  [kwod-rang-guhl]
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–noun
1. a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
2. a square or quadrangular space or court that is surrounded by a building or buildings, as on a college campus.
3. the building or buildings around such a space or court.
4. the area shown on one of the standard topographic map sheets published by the U.S. Geological Survey: approximately 17 mi. (27 km) north to south and from 11 to 15 mi. (17 to 24 km) east to west.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < LL quadrangulum, n. use of neut. of L quadrangulus, quadriangulus four-cornered. See quadr-, angle

Related forms:
quadrangled, adjective
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quad·ran·gle   (kwŏd'rāng'gəl)   
n.  

  1. Mathematics Quadrilateral.

    1. A rectangular area surrounded on all four sides by buildings.

    2. The buildings bordering this area.

  3. The area of land shown on one atlas sheet charted by the U.S. Geological Survey.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin quadrangulum, from Latin, neuter of quadrangulus, four-cornered : quadri-, quadri- + angulus, angle.]
quad·ran'gu·lar (-rāng'gyə-lər) adj., quad·ran'gu·lar·ly adv., quad·ran'gu·lar·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

quadrangle 
c.1430, from O.Fr. quadrangle (13c.), from L.L. quadrangulum "four-sided figure," prop. neut. of L. adj. quadrangulus "having four quarters," from L. quattuor "four" + angulus "angle." The shortened form quad for "quadrangle of a college," is first recorded 1820 in Oxford slang.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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