quadrate
noun
• (in the skull of a bird or reptile) a squarish bone with which the jaw articulates, thought to be homologous with the incus of the middle ear in mammals.
• another term for quadratus.
quadrate
adjective
• roughly square or rectangular.
• "a broad shell with a quadrate outline"
quadrate
verb
• make square.
• "the materials are there quadrated or formed into rectangular blocks"
• conform with or correspond to something.
• "he had to make a creed which would quadrate with his immorality"
Origin:
late Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin quadrat- ‘made square’, from the verb quadrare, from quattuor ‘four’.
