A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members. / (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.

(intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.

(UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.

Any sessile tunicate, of the class Ascidiacea, which squirts water from two openings when touched; they are filter feeders

A rule with a short perpendicular crosspiece at one end, used by draughtsmen to draw parallel lines.

(cricket) the group of players who go on a tour as a pool from which teams are selected for individual matches

(physics) The root mean square of the velocities of all the molecules in a volume of gas; directly proportional to its temperature in the case of an ideal gas.

(mathematics, of a set of numbers or values) The square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares.

(South Africa) A settlement of makeshift shacks.

(physics) any physical law, such as that of gravitation, in which a quantity varies inversely with distance from a source as the square of that distance