Penrose tiles are a pair of simple quadrilaterals that, with a careful set of rules, tile the plane without allowing translational symmetry.—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2023 Design chops: Located on the eastern end of the charming Brera neighborhood, close to the city’s famed fashion quadrilateral, the hotel is tucked away in an early 20th-century palazzo that until recently was the showroom and offices of designer Philipp Plein.—Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2023
Adjective
Other such challenge problems have shown that inaccurate codes are not necessarily the core issue—participants often made simplifying assumptions that were invalid or selected the wrong type of element out of the multitude of available variations of the original triangle and quadrilateral.—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024 The official said the quadrilateral group aims to conduct more joint patrols in the coming months and years and that these patrols will add more capabilities over time.—Peter Martin and Ben Westcott / Bloomberg, TIME, 3 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for quadrilateral
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Latin quadrilaterus four-sided, from quadri- + later-, latus side
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