QUADRANGULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quadrangular mean? 

• QUADRANGULAR (adjective)
  The adjective QUADRANGULAR has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle

  Familiarity information: QUADRANGULAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUADRANGULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

quadrangle (a four-sided polygon)

Derivation:

quadrangle (a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings)

quadrangle (a four-sided polygon)

 Context examples 

I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure, two feet and a half square, I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground; then I fastened my handkerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect; and extended it on all sides, till it was tight as the top of a drum; and the four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A nerve originated from the posterior cord of the brachial plexus within the axilla then passing through the quadrangular space to innervate the deltoid and teres minor muscles and terminating as the superior lateral brachial cutaneous nerve.

(Axillary Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)