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1. A geometric figure with four right angles and four equal sides.
2. An object in the shape of a square, or a rectangle that is nearly a square.
3. An open, usually four-sided area in a city or town where two or more streets meet, often containing trees, grass, and benches for recreational use.
4. To adjust something so that it is at right angles to something else, or to test something for this alignment.
5. Etymology: "tool for measuring right angles", from Old French esquire, "a square, squareness"; from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from exquadrare, "to square"; from Latin ex-, "out" + quadrare, "to make square"; from quadrus, "a square"; from quattuor, "four".
2. An object in the shape of a square, or a rectangle that is nearly a square.
3. An open, usually four-sided area in a city or town where two or more streets meet, often containing trees, grass, and benches for recreational use.
4. To adjust something so that it is at right angles to something else, or to test something for this alignment.
5. Etymology: "tool for measuring right angles", from Old French esquire, "a square, squareness"; from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from exquadrare, "to square"; from Latin ex-, "out" + quadrare, "to make square"; from quadrus, "a square"; from quattuor, "four".
The meaning of "rectangular shape" or "area" is recorded by the late 14th century.
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(Latin: rule, pattern; normalis, "right angled, made according to a carpenter's or mason's square"; then, "conforming to common standards, usual")
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abampere per square centimeter, aA/cm2
The unit of current density in the electromagnetic centimeter-gram-second system.
abcoulomb per square centimeter, aC/cm2
The electromagnetic centimeter-gram-second unit of surface density of charge, electric polarization, and displacement.
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square
A four-sided figure that has four lines arranged at 90 degree angles.
The opposite sides are parallel to each other and all sides are of equal length.
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Measurements and Mathematics Terms
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(There are estimated to be 10,000 million insects living in each square kilometer of habitable land on earth or 26,000 million per square mile)
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root mean square; RMS
The square root of the average square of the instantaneous values of an ac output.
For a sine wave the root mean square value is 0.707 times the peak value. The equivalent value of alternating current, I, that will produce the same heating in a conductor with resistance, R, as a dc current of value I.
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