quadrant

See also: Quadrant

English

Ptolemy using a quadrant (4)

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Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kwŏdʹrənt, IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹənt/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (General American, dialects of Canada) enPR: kwŏʹdrənt, IPA(key): /ˈkwɑ.dɹənt/
  • (Canada, dialects of the US) enPR: kwŏdʹrənt, IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹənt/
  • (Australia) enPR: kwŏdʹrənt, IPA(key): /ˈkwɔd.ɹənt/
  • (New Zealand) enPR: kwŏdʹrənt, IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹənt/, [ˈkwɔ̟d.ɹənt]

Etymology 1

    Inherited from Middle English quadrant, from Old French cadran, quadrant and its etymon Latin quadrāns, -antis (“fourth part of something, quarter”).[1] Doublet of quadrans.

    Noun

    quadrant (plural quadrants)

    1. One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
      • 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4 (black comedy, surreal comedy), spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman):
        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.
      • 2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 02:45 from the start, in dracula flow 3‎[1] (comedy):
        Ops wanted some initiative, blew up their entire quadrant. I'm movin' like Oppenheimer.
    2. (mathematics) One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
    4. (geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
    5. (nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
    6. (college basketball) One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
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    Etymology 2

      Inherited from Middle English quadrant, quadrante, from Latin quadrātum; form influenced by Etymology 1.[2] Doublet of quadrat and quadrate.

      Noun

      quadrant (plural quadrants)

      1. (obsolete) A square or quadrangle.
        • 1852, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses, page 52:
          There is an outcourt or quadrant, whereof one side is a gallery to walk in, being in length six hundred feet.

      References

      1. ^ “quā̆drant, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
      2. ^ “quā̆drant, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

      Catalan

      Etymology 1

        Learned borrowing from Latin quadrantem (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        quadrant m (plural quadrants)

        1. quadrant

        Further reading

        Etymology 2

        Verb

        quadrant

        1. gerund of quadrar

        French

        Etymology

          Learned borrowing from Latin quadrantem (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /ka.dʁɑ̃/
          • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

          Noun

          quadrant m (plural quadrants)

          1. quadrant

          Further reading

          Latin

          Verb

          quadrant

          1. third-person plural present active indicative of quadrō
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