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magic square

noun

  1. a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.


magic square

noun

  1. a square array of rows of integers arranged so that the sum of the integers is the same when taken vertically, horizontally, or diagonally
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

magic square

  1. A square that contains numbers arranged in equal rows and columns such that the sum of each row, column, and sometimes diagonal is the same.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of magic square1

First recorded in 1695–1705
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Example Sentences

The work “is a beautiful and simple direct implementation of the Mermin-Peres magic square game,” says Arul Lakshminarayan of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, who was not involved in the experimental demonstration.

You don’t go to the films of John Waters for a tidy three-act structure, and you don’t go to his essays for elements locking into place with the organizational splendor of a magic square.

The clue was a partially finished magic square.

In a magic square, a grid was filled with a consecutive set of numbers so every row, column, and diagonal added up to the same number.

And I decided it was a magic square after all, because it was going to bring my friend and me back together.

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