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quadrant
Meaning: one of four equal sections into which a plane or circle is divided
quadrant in a sentence
How quadrant is used in real sentences:
Sailors once used a quadrant to measure a star's angle above the horizon.
The city planners divided the map into a quadrant system so each emergency team covered exactly one section.
“Clerks sorted arrivals by region, sometimes marking each quadrant of a map to track threats, harvests, and unrest.”
— from the passage The Queen's Paper Roads
Synonyms for quadrant
Other words for quadrant — quarter — carry the same meaning.
- quarter
Where it comes from
From Latin quadrans 'a fourth part'
Word parts
- quad, tetra — four
quadrant: quad (four) + -ant (part of)
Memory hook
QUAD (four) + RANT — one of four equal parts, like a QUADrilateral cut into fours.