Crossword-Solution: QUADRATURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quadrature | a. | 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. |
| Quadrature | a. | A quadrate; a square. |
| Quadrature | a. | 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. |
| Quadrature | a. | 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. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “QUADRATURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Act of squaring | 1 answer |
| HEAVENLY body in relation to another ninety degrees away, position of | 1 answer |
| SQUARE whose area is equal to that of a given figure | 1 answer |
| Squaring process | 1 answer |
| the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUADRATURE (5)
Thine now is all this World, thy vertue hath won What thy hands builded not, thy Wisdom gain’d With odds what Warr hath lost, and fully aveng’d Our foile in Heav’n; here thou shalt Monarch reign, There didst not; there let him still Victor sway, As Battel hath adjudg’d, from this new World Retiring, by his own doom alienated, And henceforth Monarchie with thee divide Of all things, parted by th’ Empyreal bounds, His Quadrature, from thy Orbicular World, Or trie thee now more dang’rous to his Throne.
Nay, Aristotle would not have missed the quadrature of the circle, if only baleful conflicts had spared the books of the ancients, who knew all the methods of nature.
Thine now is all this World, thy vertue hath won What thy hands builded not, thy Wisdom gain'd With odds what Warr hath lost, and fully aveng'd Our foile in Heav'n; here thou shalt Monarch reign, There didst not; there let him still Victor sway, As Battel hath adjudg'd, from this new World Retiring, by his own doom alienated, And henceforth Monarchie with thee divide Of all things, parted by th' Empyreal bounds, 380 His Quadrature, from thy Orbicular World, Or trie thee now more dang'rous to his Throne.
Mercator published a demonstration of this quadrature; much about which time Sir Isaac Newton, being then twenty-three years of age, had invented a general method, to perform on all geometrical curves what had just before been tried on the hyperbola.
Professor Max M黮ler after a lifetime of arduous labor in this field frankly confesses: "Modern words are round, ancient words are square, and we may as well hope to solve the quadrature of the circle, as to express adequately the ancient thought of the Vedas in modern English." Without a commentary it is practically impossible to understand either the spirit or the meaning of the Upanishads.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1982–1984).