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quadrable, a. Math.|ˈkwɒdrəb(ə)l|
Also 8 -ible.
[ad. L. type *quadrābilis, f. quadrāre to square: see quadrate v. and -able.]
Capable of being represented by an equivalent square, or of being expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
1695Wallis in Phil. Trans. XIX. 111 The Spaces in the Cycloid, which are perfectly Quadrable. 1743Emerson Fluxions 196 Here the Curve is not quadrable in this Form. 1798Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 260 The areas of any parabolic segments..are geometrically quadrable. 1872Loomis Calculus vi. 253 When the area limited by a curve can be expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms, the surface is said to be quadrable.
Hence quadraˈbility, the quality or condition of being quadrable.
1743Emerson Fluxions 194 In Curves of more Terms, there are several Conditions requisite to their exact Quadrability. |