quadrilateral
adjective
having four sides.
quadrilaterals
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pluralof quadrilateral.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There are yet more triangles and quadrilaterals of affection, not always clearly mapped in Bradshaw’s vigorous trimming of the text.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
In the experiment, subjects were shown six quadrilaterals and asked to detect the one that was unlike the others.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Note this is a characteristic of rectangles, but not other quadrilaterals.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
I showed that for certain shapes—for kites, which are quadrilaterals with bilateral symmetry—you can escape.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 17, 2018
These latter are nothing more or less than clumsy lugs or quadrilaterals.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
