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How to use quadrilateral in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, adjective

Quadrilateral means a polygon with four sides. Example: “The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.”

Examples of quadrilateral by meaning

nounAn area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.

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

adjectiveHaving four sides.

  • They spoke at a quadrilateral meeting of the trade ministers of the United States, the European Union, Canada, and Japan.

More sentences with quadrilateral

  • All triangles, all rectangles, and all cyclic quadrilaterals are cyclic-inscriptable.From the entry cyclic-inscriptable
  • A kite is a quadrilateral with exactly two pairs of adjacent congruent sides.2011, W. Michael Kelley, “Quadrilaterals”, in The Humongous Book of Geometry Problems: Translated for People Who Don’t Speak Math!!, New…. From the entry kite
  • If a campus was a green quadrilateral described by hulking, hederated Gothics, then this was a campus.1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry hederated
  • This is the isosceles quadrilateral with the two base angles right angles.1945, Harold E. Wolfe, Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry, page 31. From the entry isosceles
  • All the faces of this enneahedron are quadrilaterals.2015, Claudi Alsina, Roger B. Nelsen, A Mathematical Space Odyssey: Solid Geometry in the 21st Century, page 191. From the entry enneahedron
  • Having constructed K, the incircle of the quadrilateral can be easily constructed since it is tangent to BA and BC.2005, István Reiman, International Mathematical Olympiad: 1959-1975, page 51. From the entry incircle
  • This trapezohedron, or antidiamond, is composed of ten quadrilaterals.2002, John Montroll, A Plethora of Polyhedra in Origami, page 105. From the entry trapezohedron
  • The lateen sail is triangular or a quadrilateral which is almost triangular, the former being the type used by the Byzantines.1990, Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 47. From the entry lateen
  • For example, in Mathematics, the SVL includes find and set, which are not as orthographically complex as other entries such as quadrilateral or trigonometric, and furthermore commonly occur outside mathematics.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific…. From the entry orthographically

Meaning of quadrilateral

  1. noun A polygon with four sides.
  2. noun An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.
  3. adjective Having four sides.

Full definition of quadrilateral

Questions about quadrilateral in a sentence

How do you use quadrilateral in a sentence?
Quadrilateral is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.”
What is a short sentence with quadrilateral?
“All the faces of this enneahedron are quadrilaterals.”
What does quadrilateral mean?
Quadrilateral means a polygon with four sides.

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