Usually means: Section of plane divided fourfold.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. quadrant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quadrant: Merriam-Webster
  3. quadrant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quadrant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quadrant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quadrant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quadrant, quadrant: Wordnik
  8. quadrant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quadrant: Wiktionary
  10. quadrant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quadrant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quadrant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quadrant: Dictionary.com
  14. quadrant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Quadrant (abdomen), Quadrant (album), Quadrant (analytic geometry), Quadrant (anatomy), Quadrant (architecture), Quadrant (astronomy), Quadrant (circle), Quadrant (instrument), Quadrant (magazine), Quadrant (motorcycles), Quadrant (plane geometry), Quadrant (solid geometry), Quadrant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quadrant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quadrant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quadrant: Rhymezone
  19. Quadrant (m), quadrant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quadrant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quadrant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. quadrant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. quadrant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quadrant: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Quadrant (technology), Quadrant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quadrant (analytic geometry), Quadrant (technology), quadrant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. quadrant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Quadrant: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Quadrant (technology), quadrant: Medical dictionary
  7. Quadrant: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quadrant: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. quadrant: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. Quadrant: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. quadrant: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quadrant: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quadrant: Backgammon

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See quadrantal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
noun:  (mathematics) One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
noun:  (geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
noun:  (nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
noun:  (college basketball) One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
noun:  (obsolete) A square or quadrangle.

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