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1. Quadrant
   [instrument] A quadrant is an instrument that is used to measure angles up to 90°. It was originally proposed by Ptolemy as a better kind of astrolabe. Several different variations of the instrument were later produced by medieval Muslim astronomers. ==Types of quadrants== There are several...
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2. quadrant
   Type: Term Pronunciation: kwah′drănt Definitions: 1. One quarter of a circle. 2. anatomy roughly circular areas are divided for descriptive purposes into quadrants. The abdomen is divided into right upper and lower and left upper and lower quadrants by a horizontal and a vertical line int...
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3. quadrant
   [n] - a quarter of the circumference of a circle 2. [n] - a quarter of the circumference of a circle 3. [n] - any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes 4. [n] - the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle 5. [n] - a meas...
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4. Quadrant
   denotes one of four equal sections in the mouth. The upper right, upper left, lower right or the lower left.
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5. Quadrant
   Code name for the first Quebec conference (Churchill & Roosevelt)- August 1943
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6. Quadrant
   One quarter of a circle.
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7. Quadrant
   Quadrant: A quarter. For example, the liver is in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.
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8. quadrant
   one of the four quarters of the rectangular coordinate dimensioning system Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • an instrument for measuring angles having a graduated quartercircle arc 99999 INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951 Category: Transport • these...
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9. Quadrant
   Convex moulding of quarter circle profile, usually between fillets.
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10. quadrant
    Instrument used in navigation for measuring altitude, made up of a quarter-circle of wood or metal marked with a graded scale of angles. From the late 16thC quadrants made of brass, or brass and mahogany, with a pivoted radius, or index arm, came into use.
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11. Quadrant
    Quad'rant noun [ Latin quadrans , -antis , a fourth part, a fourth of a whole, from quattuor four: confer French quadrant , cadran . See Four , and confer Cadrans .] 1. The fourth part; the qua...
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12. quadrant
    <dentistry> The four parts of your mouth, that is the upper left, the upper right, the lower left, and the lower right. ... (08 Jan 1998) ...
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13. quadrant
    noun a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies
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14. quadrant
    noun the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle
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15. quadrant
    right angle noun a quarter of the circumference of a circle
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16. quadrant
    noun a quarter of the circumference of a circle
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17. quadrant
    a device for measuring the height of stars in the sky which was used in the past for calculatingdirections when travelling across the sea
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18. quadrant
    (kwod´rәnt) one fourth of the circumference of a circle. one of four corresponding parts, as of the abdominal surface, the dentition, the field of vision, or the tympanic membrane.
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19. Quadrant
    • (n.) The fourth part; the quarter. • (n.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90
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20. quadrant
    (from the article `Hadley, John`) In 1730, independently of Thomas Godfrey of Philadelphia, Hadley invented a quadrant (actually a double-reflecting octant) for measuring the ... The first instruments used at sea for elevation angle measurements seem to have been the quadrant and the astrolabe, long known to astronomers. For ... [2 ...
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21. Quadrant
    (from the article `McAuley, James Phillip`) ...at the University of Sydney, he taught for a while, served with Australian forces in World War II, and then became a senior lecturer at the ...
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22. Quadrant
    HMAS Quadrant was a British-built Australian Queensborough Class destroyer of 1705 tons displacement launched in 1942 and lent to the Royal Australian Navy in 1945. HMAS Quadrant was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers and carried a complement of 220. She was armed with four 4.7 inch guns; ...
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23. Quadrant
    [magazine] Keith Windschuttle was appointed Editor in late 2007. ==History== The magazine was founded in 1956 by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been active in social-democrat politics in Europe and James McAuley, a Catholic poet, famous for the anti-modernist Ern Malley hoa...
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24. quadrant
    
    • a quarter of the circumference of a circle
    • a quarter of the circumference of a circle
    • any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes
    • the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle
    • a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies
    
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25. Quadrant
    The dental term for the division of the jaws into four parts, beginning at the midline of the arch and extending towards the last tooth in the back of the mouth. There are four quadrants in the mouth; each quadrant generally contains five to eight teeth.
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