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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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