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Quadrant
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- 1 One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
"Kids, I swear, I'm gonna love all of you, and equally. I'll be dividing my love into seven equal sections, or "Love Quadrants". Each quadrant will be worth 15 "Love Units" represented by these small brass marbles. You may use these marbles as currency amongst yourselves. Collect 35 "Love Units", you can trade those in for a beach towel with my face on it."
- 2 A square or quadrangle. obsolete
"There is an outcourt or quadrant, whereof one side is a gallery to walk in, being in length six hundred feet."
- 3 a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies wordnet
- 4 One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
- 5 the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle wordnet
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- 6 One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
- 7 any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes wordnet
- 8 A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
- 9 a quarter of the circumference of a circle wordnet
- 10 One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
Etymology
From Middle English quadrant, from Old French cadran, quadrant and its etymon Latin quadrāns, -antis (“fourth part of something, quarter”). Doublet of quadrans.
From Middle English quadrant, quadrante, from Latin quadrātum; form influenced by Etymology 1. Doublet of quadrat and quadrate.
See also for "quadrant"
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