quadrant
/ˈkwɒd.ɹənt/US/ˈkwɑ.dɹənt/
quadrant noun: one of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
Noun (1)
quadrant (plural quadrants)
- 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"...2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4 (black comedy, surreal comedy), spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)
- Ops wanted some initiative, blew up their entire quadrant. I'm movin' like Oppenheimer.2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 02:45 from the start, in dracula flow 3 (comedy)
- One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
- One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
- A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
- One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
Noun (2)
quadrant (plural quadrants)
- A square or quadrangle.
- There is an outcourt or quadrant, whereof one side is a gallery to walk in, being in length six hundred feet.1852, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses, page 52
quadrant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
quadrant in Tamil
- வட்டக் கால்பகுதி, இலம்போசம், கால்வட்டம், காற்பகுதி, நான்கு பக்கமுள்ள, உயரமானி
quadrant in Urdu
- دائرے کا چوتھائی, ربع دائرہ
quadrant in Bengali
- চতুর্থক
quadrant in Malayalam
- ചതുർത്ഥാംശം, വൃത്തത്തിൻറെ നാലിലൊന്ന്
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- quadrant in Kannada
- ನಾಲ್ಕನೇಯೊಂದುಪಾಲು, ನಾಕೊಂದುಪಾಲು, ಕಾಲಾಳಿ, ಕಾಲುಬಳಸಿ
- quadrant in Tagalog
- kapatan
- quadrant in Indonesian
- kuadran
- quadrant in Persian
- چارک čârak
- quadrant in Thai
- จตุภาค jà-dtù-páak
Examples of quadrant in a sentence
- After exploratory surgery, the extent of the problem was localized to the left lower quadrant.
- A triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.
- When held vertically close to your nose, the top left quadrant of the right thumb is the most distomedial quadrant.
Forms of quadrant
| plural | quadrants |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | quadraunt |
Origin of quadrant
Inherited from Middle English quadrant, from Old French cadran, quadrant and its etymon Latin quadrāns, -antis (“fourth part of something, quarter”). Doublet of quadrans.
Inherited from Middle English quadrant, quadrante, from Latin quadrātum; form influenced by Etymology 1. Doublet of quadrat and quadrate.
Words formed from quadrant
Phrases with quadrant
Questions about quadrant
- What does quadrant mean?
- Quadrant means one of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
- What is quadrant in Tamil?
- Quadrant in Tamil is வட்டக் கால்பகுதி, இலம்போசம், கால்வட்டம். See Quadrant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is quadrant?
- Quadrant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quadrant?
- Quadrant is pronounced /ˈkwɒd.ɹənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of quadrant?
- The plural of quadrant is quadrants.
Words near quadrant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quadrant (page history and authors); quadrant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadrant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadrant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadrant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadrant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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