Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun quadrature

1 sense of quadrature

Sense 1
quadrature -- (the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure)
       => construction -- (drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem")