Phrase Hound found 68 phrases and 14 compound words that contain squares. The most common are listed below. Open squares in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 68
- least squaresA method of fitting a straight line through a series of points such that the sum of the squares of the residuals is minimized
- difference of two squaresThe identity x²-y²=(x+y)(x-y), that holds for all real numbers.
- residual sum of squaresThe sum of the squared residuals between some model and a data set; a measure of how well the model fits with the data.
- squares of oppositionplural of square of opposition: A diagram representing the relations between the four basic categorical propositions, which are positioned at the four corners of a square.
- black squaresplural of black square: A predominantly black image, posted by users of social media, as a demonstration of support for awareness and protest campaigns, particularly those related to racism and police brutality.
- grid squaresplural of grid square: A square on a two-dimensional grid
- Latin squaresplural of Latin square: An n-by-n arrangement of n different integers such that each row, each column and each of the two diagonals contains each of the integers once and once only.
- lemon squaresplural of lemon square: A square or rectangular dessert consisting of a thin shortbread crust and lemon curd filling.
- magic squaresplural of magic square: A palindromic square word arrangement, usually in the form of a magic amulet.
- market squaresplural of market square: An open area in a town housing a public market, often on just one day per week; a marketplace.
- perfect squaresplural of perfect square: Any integer which is the product of some integer times itself: any integer whose square root is also an integer.
- public squaresplural of public square: An open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town, used for community gatherings.
- town squaresplural of town square: An open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town, used for community gatherings.
- Yorkshire squaresplural of Yorkshire square: A two-storey fermentation system involving a shallow chamber with a walled deck above it. Cooled wort is fermented in the lower chamber, while the yeasty head settles on the deck above, and has the fermenting …
- three squaresThree square meals, understood as a complete, satisfying, and nourishing regimen of food taken over the course of a day.
- most-perfect magic squaresplural of most-perfect magic square: A magic square of order n containing the numbers 1 to n² and where each 2 × 2 subsquare sums to 2s, where s = n² + 1, and all pairs of integers distant n/2 along a (major) diagonal sum to s.
- Punnett squaresplural of Punnett square: A graphical representation used to determine the probability of an offspring expressing a particular genotype.
- Rice Krispie squaresplural of Rice Krispie square: a light snack consisting of Rice Krispies packed tightly together into a cube or cuboid by caramel or other sticky edible substances.
- alphamagic squaresplural of alphamagic square: A magic square in which the number of letters in the name of each number in the square generates another magic square.
- antimagic squaresplural of antimagic square: A heterosquare in which the sums form a sequence of consecutive numbers.
- pandiagonal magic squaresplural of pandiagonal magic square: A magic square with the additional property that the broken diagonals also summate to the magic constant.
- bacon squaresplural of bacon square: The smoked, cured jowl of a pig, cut into a square shape.
- blue squaresplural of blue square: On a trail map, an indicator of a ski slope of intermediate difficulty, steeper and narrower than a green circle, and with a gradient of 25–40%.
- center squaresplural of center square: A tool used to find the center of a circle, consisting of two perpendicular straight-edges, both placed tangent to the circular piece, and a third straight-edge which bisects the angle between the other two.
- centre squaresplural of centre square: A tool used to find the center of a circle, consisting of two perpendicular straight-edges, both placed tangent to the circular piece, and a third straight-edge which bisects the angle between the other two.
Compound words 14
- capsquaresplural of capsquare: A metal plate that covers the trunnions of a cannon and holds it in place.
- foursquaresplural of foursquare: Having four equal sides; square.
- goalsquaresplural of goalsquare: One of the squares, measuring 9 by 6.4 metres, marked at either end of the ground in front of the goalpost, and from which the ball is kicked after a behind.
- gridsquaresplural of gridsquare: A square on a two-dimensional grid
- headsquaresplural of headsquare: A headscarf.
- heterosquaresplural of heterosquare: An n-by-n arrangement of n² numbers such that the numbers in each row, in each column and along both diagonals all have different sums.
- nonsquaresplural of nonsquare: Not square in shape.
- polysquaresplural of polysquare: a polyomino
- semisquaresplural of semisquare: An aspect made by two planets when they are 45 degrees apart from each other.
- squaresailsplural of squaresail: A sail bent to a horizontal yard set athwartships.