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quadrant

quadrant

357 5.6
One of four equal parts of a circle or area
  • noun
  • /ˈkwɒdrənt/
translation icon : cuadrante
  • And what you can see is that there are two of them in each quadrant of our polar coordinate system.
  • four quadrants
  • divided into quadrants
  • upper quadrant

Only memorize the first quadrant or yes, the first quadrant.

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Examples

  • But here, the entire quadrant of the display is blown out.

  • HART: We'll start with the southeastern quadrant.

  • And we're doing the same thing with the top quadrant top part as well.

  • See, on one side of the quadrant you have E and you have S.

  • Look, just make sure that second quadrant is clear, okay?

  • Observer, prepare a view of the second quadrant, please.

  • So you're in this lower right quadrant of the plot.

  • This is the probe's last pass through this quadrant.

  • He talks about the cash flow quadrant, which has four quadrants.

  • In this math class, we learned how to calculate the area of each quadrant of a circle.

Synonyms

one-quarter
vsquadrant
29 1.0

One of four equal parts of a whole

is the geometric label focusing on area or plane division
fourth
vsquadrant
21 1.0

One of four equal parts of something

is the geometric term used mainly for dividing shapes into four
fourth part
vsquadrant
1 1.0

One of four equal pieces of something

is the geometric term used for equal area divisions of shapes
quarter-circle
vsquadrant
1 3.5

A curved part of a circle that is one quarter of the whole

is the general part term for dividing areas or planes into four

Surface Forms

quadrant singular
quadrants plural

Morphology

quadrant = quarter (semi-transparent) = quadr + ant

The meaning corresponds to 'one fourth' (like 'quarter'), but the form is Latin-derived (quadr- + -ant) rather than a productive modern English formation.

Etymology

The word quadrant comes from an old Latin word that means 'a quarter' or 'one fourth', the same root you see in quarter and quadruple. So a quadrant is one of four equal parts of a circle or area.