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▪ I. ˈsquaring, vbl. n.
[f. square v.]
1. The action of making square or of reducing to a square form.
c1440Promp. Parv. 471 Squarynge, quadracio, conquadracio. 1476–7Sarum Ch.-w. Accs. (Swayne, 1896) 363 The fellyng of ij Elms and swaryng, iiijd. 1529More Dyalogue i. Wks. 155/1 Now consider, that ye make him by & by fall to y⊇ squaryng of his stones. 1552–3in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 52 Thomas Watson carpender for y⊇ squarynge, framynge, and settinge up..a wall of..timbre. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 198 Ordnance of brasse..very well proportioned in bore and squaring. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xii. ⁋6 The Squaring the Face and Stems of the Punch. 1725W. Halfpenny Sound Building 32 Enough for squaring of this Rail. 1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 125 Squaring by the lifts makes them [sc. yards] horizontal.
attrib.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Squaring Marks, marks placed upon the lifts and braces [as guides in squaring the yards]. 1870Sauzay Marvels Glass-making 92 This..fragile glass..[is] placed on wheels and rails, which will convey it still unpolished to the squaring room, where it will be examined, classified [and] cut. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 849/2 Squaring Plow. For squaring paper in book-work. Ibid., Squaring Shears,..a machine for squaring up tinned plate.
b. With off, out, or up. Also attrib.
(a)1611Cotgr., Equarrissement, a measuring, or squaring out, by a Squire.
(b)1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 294 Squaring-off, in ship-building, signifies plugging off and otherwise tightening the treenails [etc.]. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Squaring⁓off Saw, a circular saw,.. to square the ends of work.
(c)1846Holtzapffel Turning II. 501 When the works are planed with rebates, grooves, or mouldings, the squaring up of the four sides is always the preliminary step. 1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. Q 16. 1 It is capable of performing..grooving, tongueing, and squaring-up. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2813/2 The squaring-up and facing tables are on the other side.
c. The manner in which a thing is squared or set square.
1832Marryat N. Forster xxxvi, Look at..the squaring of her topsails.
†2. Dissension, wrangling, contention. Obs.
1580North Plutarch (1595) 197 Hanniball hearing of their iarre and squaring together [etc.]. 1598Florio, Rissa,..a quarrell,..a strife, a squaring. 1600Holland Livy xxiv. ix. 515 All the centuries besides without any squaring and variance elected the very same. 1621J. Reynolds God's Revenge i. 153 Hee desired and sought some pretext..to bolster out and apologize his iarring and squaring with his wife.
3. Multiplication of a number by itself.
1579Digges Stratiot. 52 Multiplication of moytie in itselfe whiche I name Squaring. 1694[see biquadrate v.].
4. The process of finding a square equivalent to another magnitude.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v., The Quadrature or Squaring of the Circle, is the finding a Square equal to the Area of a Circle. 1798Hutton Course Math. II. 95 It seems intended to make an allowance for the squaring of the tree. 1855Brewster Newton I. ii. 22 Several articles on angular sections, and the squaring of curves. 1881R. Routledge Science ii. 36 This is the celebrated problem of the Squaring of the Circle.
5. Adaptation, adjustment.
1702English Theophrastus 362 The squaring of a man's thoughts, wishes, and desires to the lot that providence has set out for us, is both a blessing and a duty. 1838Lytton Alice iii. ii, I do not understand this new-fangled policy—this squaring of measures to please the Opposition.
6. Assumption of a boxing attitude.
1850Thackeray Pendennis xxxviii, He..started..into what is called an attitude of self-defence, and..began the operation which is entitled ‘squaring’.
▪ II. ˈsquaring, ppl. a.
[f. square v.]
†1. Given to contention or wrangling. Obs.
1515Barclay Egloges iii. (1570) C ij b/1 If thou be busy or squaring of language Thou mayst peradventure walke in the same passage. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus S j b, Nay holla squaring Dick, I am no but for euerie boult. 1598Florio, Dissentioso,..contentious, squaring, quarrelsome.
2. squaring band, squaring piece (see quots.).
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 74 The topmasts have squaring pieces at the heel, to fit the mast hole. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 399/1 Upon the under side of the carriage there are wheels placed in a horizontal position, round which the ‘squaring bands’ are passed.
3. That multiplies a quantity by itself.
1961Technology Feb. 44/2 An automatic neon overload indicator..detects signal peaks exceeding the range of the squaring unit. 1979Proc. London Math. Soc. XXXVIII. 514 The squaring map a→a2, determined by this Jordan product, is the same as that determined by functional calculus. |