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quadrature - 5 dictionary results
- 1. The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.
- 2. A quadrate; a square.
- 3. The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable.
- 4. The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.
- 5. Act of squaring; act of finding a square of equal area with a given curvilinear figure; position of a heavenly body when 90° distant from another.
quadrature - examples of usage
- It is just the same with the quadrature of the circle. - "The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes", Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
- On the Quadrature of the Circle, he says he cannot decide if this problem be resolvable or not: but he observes, that it is very useless to search for it any more; since we have arrived by approximation to such a point of accuracy, that on a large circle, such as the orbit which the earth describes round the sun, the geometrician will not mistake by the thickness of a hair. - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)", Isaac D'Israeli.
- The quadrature of the circle is still, however, a favourite game with some visionaries, and several are still imagining that they have discovered the perpetual motion; the Italians nickname them matto perpetuo: and Bekker tells us of the fate of one Hartmann, of Leipsic, who was in such despair at having passed his life so vainly, in studying the perpetual motion, that at length he hanged himself! - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)", Isaac D'Israeli.
