Meaning

2 senses
  1. A polygon with four sides.

    Meronyms: angle, side; see also Thesaurus:polygon

    Viereck

    четырёхуго́льникčetyrjoxugólʹnik

    чотирику́тникčotyrykútnyk

    a four-sided polygon

  2. An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.

    The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. What kind of quadrilateral is it?

    Що це за чотирикутник? — deniko

  2. The area of a quadrilateral cannot be written as a function of its side lengths.

    Площу чотирикутника не можна виразити як функцію довжин його сторін. — deniko

    ruПлощадь четырёхугольника нельзя выразить через длины его сторон. — Ooneykcall

  3. This quadrilateral has two right angles.

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  4. A trapezium is a quadrilateral with two parallel sides.

    deEin Trapez ist ein ebenes Viereck mit zwei parallelen Seiten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. What's the difference between a quadrangle and a quadrilateral?

Translations

9 languages
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Origin

Learned borrowing from New Latin quadrilaterus + -al.

Learned borrowing from New Latin quadrilaterus + -al.

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Forms

plural: quadrilaterals
Singularquadrilateral
Pluralquadrilaterals

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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