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Definition of Quadrant

1. Noun. A quarter of the circumference of a circle.

2. Noun. Any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes.

3. Noun. The area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle.

4. Noun. A measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies.

Definition of Quadrant

1. n. The fourth part; the quarter.

Definition of Quadrant

1. Noun. One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) The four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis. ¹

3. Noun. (geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°. ¹

4. Noun. (nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quadrant

1. a quarter section of a circle [n -S]

Medical Definition of Quadrant

1. The four parts of your mouth, that is the upper left, the upper right, the lower left, and the lower right. (08 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadrant

quadrals quadrangle quadrangles quadrangular quadrangular cartilage quadrangular lobule quadrangular membrane quadrangular prism quadrangular space quadrangular therapy

quadrangularity quadrangularly quadrangulation quadrangulations quadrans quadrant (current term) quadrant plate quadrantal quadrantally quadrantals

quadrantanopia quadrantanopias quadrantes quadrantic quadrantic hemianopia quadrantic scotoma quadrants quadraphonic quadraphonic system quadraphonics

Literary usage of Quadrant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"The mural quadrant is of considerable size (six or eight feet radius, ... Ptolemy, in the Almagest, describes a quadrant with which he determined the ..."

2. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by George Albert Wentworth (1891)
"In the first quadrant, by § 3, the sine increases from 0 to 1, and in the second, decreases from 1 to 0. This is a continually increasing and decreasing ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"By paralysis of this muscle and the action of the inferior oblique, the apex of the cornea is turned into the naso-superior quadrant. ..."

4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"strait line AV cut the arch of the quadrant in I PART in. in the same proportion as the point C divides the «—^—^ strait line BV, which is equal to the arch ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"45, lateral view of C. quadrant. Fig. 49.—Lateral view of D quadrant in egg of ... D quadrant, a lateral view. Me1 and Me! all dividing bilaterally. Fig. ..."

6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1866)
"The Astronomer Royal exhibited a quadrant, the work of Abraham Sharp, lately received at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and gave the following account of ..."

7. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1756)
"or or pertaining to Lent. m time» »Г po QUA'DRANT (quadrant, I.. ... Radii perpendicular one to another in the center of a circle, is called a quadrant. ..."

8. The Women's Health and Aging Study: Health and Social Characteristics of ...edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty (1996)
"The upper quadrant test is negative (no evidence of left or right visual field ... Again look at her eyes and hold your hands in the lower outer quadrant ..."

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