首页英语词典squaresquare英英释意

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"