magic square

English

Noun

magic square (plural magic squares)

1. (games) A palindromic square word arrangement, usually in the form of a magic amulet.

   Probably the best-known magic square is the 5×5 square consisting of the words ROTAS OPERA TENET AREPO SATOR.

2. (number theory) An n-by-n arrangement of n² numbers such that the numbers in each row, in each column and along both diagonals all have the same sum.

Magic amulet

3 x 3 magic square

Derived terms

terms derived from magic square

• antimagic square
• bimagic square
• most-perfect magic square
• multimagic square

• panmagic square
• prime reciprocal magic square
• trimagic square

Translations

n-by-n arrangement of n² numbers

• Azerbaijani: sehrli kvadrat
• Bengali: জাদু বর্গ (jadu bôrg)
• Catalan: àbac màgic m, quadrat màgic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幻方 (huànfāng)

• Finnish: taikaneliö
• French: carré magique (fr) m
• German: magisches Quadrat n
• Hungarian: bűvös négyzet
• Indonesian: persegi ajaib
• Japanese: 魔方陣 (まほうじん, mahōjin)
• Korean: 마방진 (mabangjin) (魔方陣)

• Malayalam: മാന്ത്രിക ചതുരം (māntrika caturaṃ)
• Persian: مربع جادویی‎
• Portuguese: quadrado mágico (pt) m
• Romanian: pătrat magic n
• Russian: маги́ческий квадра́т (ru) m (magíčeskij kvadrát)
• Spanish: cuadrado mágico m
• Tamil: மாயச் சதுரம் (māyac caturam)
• Telugu: మాయా చతురస్రం (māyā caturasraṃ)
• Thai: จัตุรัสกล
• Turkish: sihirli kare
• Uzbek: sehrli kvadrat
• Vietnamese: ma trận kì ảo (魔陣奇幻)

See also

other terms of interest

• bimagic cube
• diabolic square
• heterosquare
• Lo Shu square
• magic circle
• magic constant
• magic cube
• magic cylinder
• magic hexagon
• magic hypercube
• magic series
• magic sphere
• magic star

• magic tesseract
• multimagic cube
• pantriagonal magic cube
• perfect magic cube
• satanic square
• semiperfect magic cube
• simple magic cube
• sudoku
• trimagic cube

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