quad|ran|gle

quad|ran|gle
quad|ran|gle «KWOD RANG guhl», noun.
1. a four-sided space or court wholly or nearly surrounded by buildings: »

the quadrangle of a palace, a college quadrangle.

2. the buildings around a quadrangle: »

There was a square court behind, round which the house, huts, and store formed a quadrangle (Henry Kingsley).

3. a plane figure with four angles and four sides; quadrilateral.
4. the rectangular area represented by one of the United States Geological Survey topographic maps. The two common sizes are tracts about 13 miles wide by 17 miles north to south and 6 ½ wide by 8 ½ miles.
╂[< Late Latin quadrangulum, neuter of Latin adjective quadriangulus < quadri- four + angulus angle]

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