# squared

Pronunciation: say "SKWAIRD" US /skwɛɹd/, UK /skwɛəd/, AUS /skweːd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of square. — simple past and past participle of square
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of square. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _She squared the photo frame against the edge of the wall._
   - _They squared their accounts at the end of the trading season._

## Adjective

2. Raised to the second power, meaning a quantity multiplied by itself.
   - Simple: Multiplied by itself once, so four squared means four times four.
   - _The area of a circle uses the radius squared in its formula._
   - _Velocity squared appears in the equation for kinetic energy._
3. Covered with a printed grid of equal squares.
   - Simple: Covered with a grid of small squares, like the paper used in math class.
   - _The architect roughed out the design on squared paper before drafting it properly._
   - _Each student received a sheet of squared paper for the geometry exercise._
4. Of a game piece, located on or confined to squares of the specified color or type on the board.
   - Simple: Sitting on squares of a named color on a game board, like a chess piece can.
   - _Trading off his light-squared bishop left weak squares around the king._
   - _A lone dark-squared bishop cannot defend the light-colored squares._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/squared (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).