square
英 [skweə]
美[skwɛr]
- adj. 平方的；正方形的；直角的；正直的
- vt. 使成方形；与…一致
- vi. 一致；成方形
- n. 平方；广场；正方形
- adv. 成直角地
英英释意
- 1. (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon;
- "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"
- 2. the product of two equal terms;
- "nine is the second power of three"
- "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
- 3. an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
- 4. something approximating the shape of a square
- 5. someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- 6. a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
- 7. any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles;
- "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
- 8. a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles;
- "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"