quadrant

plural quadrants · alternative obsolete quadraunt

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

   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)

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   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.

   2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4 (black comedy, surreal comedy), spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)

2. mathematicsOne of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
3. geometryOne fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
4. nauticalA measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
5. college basketballOne of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.

plural quadrants · alternative obsolete quadraunt

1. obsoleteA 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