Usually means: Enclosed area surrounded by buildings.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. quad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quad: Merriam-Webster
  3. quad, quad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quad, quad, quad, quad, quad, quad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quad, quad: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quad: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quad, quad: Wordnik
  8. quad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quad, quad-: Wiktionary
  10. quad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quad: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quad, quad: Dictionary.com
  14. quad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. QUAD (cipher), QUAD (compressor), QUAD, QUaD, Quad (arts centre), Quad (cinema), Quad (company), Quad (energy), Quad (figure skating), Quad (film), Quad (play), Quad (rocket), Quad (typography), Quad (unit), Quad, The Quad (TV series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quad: Rhymezone
  19. quad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quad, quad-: MyWord.info
  22. Quad: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Quad: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. quad: FreeDictionary.org
  25. quad: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  26. quad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. quad, quad: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quad-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Quad: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. Quad: Energy Dictionary
  4. quad: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. quad: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. quad: CCI Computer
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Quad-, quad: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quad: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Quad-, quad: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. QUAD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Quad: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. The Quad: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quad: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. Quad: Coffee Glossary

(Note: See quadded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (typography, obsolete) Abbreviation of quadrat.
noun:  (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
noun:  (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
noun:  (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting) A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.
noun:  (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
noun:  (colloquial, dated) A horse, from colloquial or humorous quadruped specifically for horse.
noun:  Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.
noun:  A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
noun:  (skating) A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
noun:  A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
noun:  A skate with four wheels.
noun:  Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
noun:  (electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.
noun:  (radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
noun:  (informal) A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
noun:  (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
noun:  (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
noun:  (poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
noun:  (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
noun:  (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
noun:  (informal) A quadriplegic person.
noun:  A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (10¹⁵ BTU).
noun:  A quad bike.
noun:  (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
noun:  (informal) A quadcopter.
noun:  (informal) A quadrupel beer.
adjective:  Quadruple, four times the usual size or quantity.
adjective:  (paper) Quadrille, marked with squares.
verb:  (typography, letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
verb:  (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
verb:  (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
verb:  (intransitive) To ride a quad bike.
noun:  (informal) An informal strategic forum between the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, focused on Asian security matters.
noun:  (by extension) A grouping of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India.
noun:  (UK politics, historical) A coalition committee that resolved party disputes during the Cameron–Clegg coalition.

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