"a blank, low-cast type used by typographers to fill in larger spaces in printed lines," 1680s, from French quadrat "a quadrat," literally "a square," from Latin quadratrus, past participle of quadrare "to square, make square" (see quadrant). Earlier in English it meant a type of surveying instrument (c. 1400).
雙語例句
1. Each small quadrat must be more homogenerous than the sociation as a whole.
每個小樣方必須比整個基群叢更為統(tǒng)一.
來自辭典例句
2. Within this plot , gap patches and the non gap quadrat near each gap patch were sampled.