"quadratically" meaning in English

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Adverb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-quadratically.wav [US]
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  1. In a quadratic way. Tags: not-comparable Translations (in a quadratic way): kvadrate (Esperanto), באופן ריבועי (Hebrew), pătratic (Romanian)
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