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  • 31Three-square — Square Square (skw[^a]r), a. 1. (Geom.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure. [1913 Webster] 2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner. [1913 Webster] 3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and… …

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  • 32To get square with — Square Square (skw[^a]r), a. 1. (Geom.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure. [1913 Webster] 2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner. [1913 Webster] 3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and… …

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  • 33Square metre — M^2 redirects here. For other uses, see M² (disambiguation). The square metre (British spelling) or square meter (American spelling) is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m2 (33A1 in Unicode[1]). It is defined as the area of a square whose… …

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  • 34square — [[t]skwe͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ squares, squaring, squared 1) N COUNT A square is a shape with four sides that are all the same length and four corners that are all right angles. Serve the cake warm or at room temperature, cut in squares... There was a… …

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  • 35square — /skwɛə / (say skwair) noun 1. a four sided plane having all its sides equal and all its angles right angles. 2. anything having this form or a form approximating it. 3. one of the rectangular or otherwise shaped divisions of a game board, as a… …

  • 36Square inch — A square inch (plural: square inches) is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of one inch. The following symbols are used to denote square inches: *square in *sq inches, sq inch, sq in *inches/ 2, inch/ 2, in/ 2 *inches^2,… …

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  • 37square mile — noun an area of 640 acres (Freq. 5) • Hypernyms: ↑area unit, ↑square measure • Hyponyms: ↑section * * * noun : a unit of area equal to a square one mile long on each side see measure table * * * …

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  • 38Square mile — For other uses, see Square mile (disambiguation). The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi2) is an imperial and US unit of measure for an area equal to the area of a square of one statute mile.[1] It should not be confused… …

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  • 39Square-cube law — The square cube law was first mentioned in Two New Sciences (1638). The square cube law (or cube square law) is a principle, drawn from the mathematics of proportion, that is applied in engineering and …

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  • 40square chain — (ch2 or sq ch)    a traditional unit of area in English surveying, defined to be the area of a square whose side equals Gunter s chain (4 rods1 or 22 yards). Thus the square chain equals 16 square rods, 484 square yards, 4356 square feet, or… …

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