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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • At right angles to.
  • Correctly aligned with respect to something else
  • cricket in line with the batsman's popping crease.
  • Fair.
  • Honest; straightforward.
  • Shaped like a square (the polygon).
  • slang Socially conventional; boring.
  • Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

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Noun:

  • An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
  • An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
  • Anything, such as tiles or cut pieces of material, primarily defined by being square in shape.
  • British The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
  • US A square meal.
  • academia A mortarboard
  • real estate jargon A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
  • roofing A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
  • cricket The central area of a cricket field, containing several pitches laid out next to one another - only one being used at a time.
  • geometry A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.
  • mathematics The second power of a number, value, term or expression.
  • North America A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
  • slang A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s

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Verb:

  • transitive|mathematics Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
  • To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony ''with'' something.
  • To resolve.
  • transitive To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.
  • transitive To square with the same area as.

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