: having four sides
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Noun
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
Under the Hood Nvidia Edify uses something called ‘quad mesh’ models where 3D objects are made up of quadrilateral or four-sided polygons.
—John Werner, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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
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“Quadrilateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quadrilateral. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
quadrilateral
1 of 2 adjective
quad·ri·lat·er·al
ˌkwäd-rə-ˈlat-ə-rəl
-ˈla-trəl
: having four sides
quadrilateral
2 of 2 noun
: a polygon with four sides and four angles
Medical Definition
quadrilateral
adjective
quad·ri·lat·er·al
ˌkwäd-rə-ˈlat-ə-rəl, -ˈla-trəl
: having four sides
a quadrilateral muscle
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