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quadrant

UK/ˈkwɒd.ɹənt/US/ˈkwɑ.dɹənt/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,996 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: quadrants

A quadrant is a quarter of a circle, or one of four sections. The upper left quadrant, divide into quadrants, the fourth quadrant.

Doctors divide the abdomen into four quadrants to describe where pain is, and which one it is narrows the likely cause considerably. A quadrant was also an instrument for measuring angles at sea. The Latin means a fourth part.

Definitions of quadrant

  1. 1nounquadrantA quarter of a circle, or one of four sections.B2+

    “The map divides the city into quadrants, and we live in the north-east one.”

quadrant is a quarter.

Where it comes from

Latin quadrans means a fourth part, from quattuor, four.

  1. Middle English

    quadrant

  2. English, today

    quadrant

From Middle English quadrant. Middle English quadrant, from Old French cadran, quadrant and its etymon Latin quadrāns, -antis (“fourth part of something, quarter”). a doublet of quadrans.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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quadrant in the wild

  • The octant, also called a reflecting quadrant, is a reflecting instrument used in navigation.

    Octant (instrument)

  • A quadrant roadway intersection adds an additional "quadrant roadway" between two legs of an intersection.

    Quadrant roadway intersection

  • Bradley's first observation with that quadrant was made on 15 June 1742.

    Mural instrument

  • The Milky Way Galaxy is divided into four circular sectors of such quadrants.

    Galactic quadrant

  • The quadrants are referred to as the left lower quadrant, left upper quadrant, right upper quadrant and right lower quadrant.

    Quadrants and regions of abdomen

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