Quadrat Definition

kwŏdrət, -răt
quadrats
noun
Webster's New World
A piece of type metal lower than the raised typeface, used for filling spaces and blank lines.
American Heritage
A sampling plot, usually one square meter, used to study and analyze plant or animal life.
Webster's New World

(sciences) An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc. While originally rectangular, modern quadrats can be rectangular, circular, irregular, etc. (e.g.: Krebs, C.J., 1999. Ecological Methodology. Addison-Welsey Educational Publishing, Inc., Menlo Park, California; Wheater, C.P., Bell, J.R., Cook, P.A., 2011. Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, England.)

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Other Word Forms of Quadrat

Noun

Singular:
quadrat
Plural:
quadrats

Origin of Quadrat

  • 1683. Probably from French cadrat or Italian quadrato (“square”), originally from Latin quadrātum (“square”). So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English a square geometric instrument, rectangular area quadrate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin quadrātum.

    From Wiktionary

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