- A straight line at 90 degrees to a surface - April & Prudence managed to appear upright - Sheer crazy under a clipper! - The sort of line that provides just the right angle - Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith;
at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line
from any point toward the center of the earth. - At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the
line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. - A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon;
a vertical line or direction.
- The fourth part; the quarter. - The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a
circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center. - One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by
the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant;
the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the
third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant. - An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously
constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy,
surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of
90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights,
and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical
or horizontal direction.
- The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the
same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a
circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure
bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two
ordinates, and the axis of abscissas. - A quadrate; a square. - The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a
curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of
one variable into the differential of that variable. - The position of one heavenly body in respect to another
when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at
an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.
- One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in
the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial
points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other
intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is
called the solstitial colure.