quadral

A grammatical number referring to four (or more) things.

These are the three best claims for quadrals. There are several false trails in the literature, that is, suggestions of other Austronesian languages with quadrals, which turn out in fact to have four number values not five.

Likewise, expression of quadral is accomplished in the same way by establishing specific locations or points in signing space.

A set of points with all the combinatorial properties of a quadric (a quadric being the set of points of PG(n, q) whose coordinates satisfy a quadratic equation).

"A polynomial P(x₁, ..., xₙ is called quadral if it splits into a product of quadratic (or linear) functions in the complex field of coefficients."

If we wished to divide the quadrals into classes, there are obviously several ways in which it could be done, all of them arbitrary. The arbitrariness arises because the points exhibit no natural clustering.

A set of four phrases, separated by pauses when speaking or commas when writing.

The first instinctive step in revising written matter looks to an effecting of quadrals; any later revision aims at a perfecting of the rhythma.

thanks to the rhythma, in dividing correctly many simple quadrals, in more involved sentences our arrangement shows regularly these simple quadrals expanding into "periods,"

A foursome.

I like to call 4-person interactions and relational systems 'quadrals' (845—846). Their potentially visible occurrence in encounter type groups probably varies widely, and is not often discriminated unless in groups literally composed of couples.

Referring to four (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quadral grammatical number.

[…] in Konomala, Patpatar, Tolai, Kandas, Duke of York and Siar of New Ireland, these quadral forms have replaced the original plurals.

In some languages, such as Kenyah, a true quadral number also occurs in the pronoun system.

Of or relating to quadral polynomials.