Usually means: Make circle area equal square.
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  1. square the circle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. square the circle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. square the circle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. square the circle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. square the circle: Wiktionary
  6. square the circle: Dictionary.com
  7. Square the Circle (disambiguation), Square the Circle, Square the circle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Square the Circle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Square the circle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. square the circle: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (square the circle)

verb:  (geometry) To construct a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge, a task which is mathematically impossible.
verb:  (figurative) To solve a famously difficult or impossible problem.

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