Quadrant
noun
One of four equal or almost equal parts of a circle or other shape.
The unit circle is divided into four quadrants.
Often appears as...
- upper quadrant
- lower quadrant
noun
A tool for measuring angles.
Ancient sailors used a quadrant to navigate by the stars.
Often appears as...
- mariner's quadrant
- sighting quadrant
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Technical
noun
One of the four areas on a graph that is divided by two axes.
In a Cartesian coordinate system, the x and y axis divide the graph into four quadrants.
Often appears as...
- first quadrant
- second quadrant
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Academic
noun
One of four specified areas of a town or city.
The restaurant is in the northeast quadrant of the city.
Often appears as...
- northern quadrant
- southern quadrant
noun
One of four equal or almost equal parts of a circle or other shape.
The unit circle is divided into four quadrants.
Often appears as...
- upper quadrant
- lower quadrant
noun
A tool for measuring angles.
Ancient sailors used a quadrant to navigate by the stars.
Often appears as...
- mariner's quadrant
- sighting quadrant
Usage tips
Technical
noun
One of the four areas on a graph that is divided by two axes.
In a Cartesian coordinate system, the x and y axis divide the graph into four quadrants.
Often appears as...
- first quadrant
- second quadrant
Usage tips
Academic
noun
One of four specified areas of a town or city.
The restaurant is in the northeast quadrant of the city.
Often appears as...
- northern quadrant
- southern quadrant
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Pro Tip 1/2Shape Divisions
A 'quadrant' can refer to how a shape is divided, not just a circle.
The square was cut into four quadrants.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Equal
Quadrants are often equal, but they can also be 'almost' equal in some cases.
We each got a quadrant of the pie, although some pieces were slightly larger.
Pro Tip 1/2Shape Divisions
A 'quadrant' can refer to how a shape is divided, not just a circle.
The square was cut into four quadrants.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Equal
Quadrants are often equal, but they can also be 'almost' equal in some cases.
We each got a quadrant of the pie, although some pieces were slightly larger.
Pro Tip 1/2Shape Divisions
A 'quadrant' can refer to how a shape is divided, not just a circle.
The square was cut into four quadrants.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Equal
Quadrants are often equal, but they can also be 'almost' equal in some cases.
We each got a quadrant of the pie, although some pieces were slightly larger.
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We can start winning the...
We're asking the doctor, now please start cutting away the tumor, and you'll see here the doctor just took the first quadrant of the tumor and you see that first quadrant is now missing. The doctor then took the second quadrant, the third, and now it appears to be everything. And so at this stage, the doctor came back to us and said, "Alright, I'm done. What do you want me to do?
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How to make applying for...
Instead it's about understanding the fit between your characteristics and what would make you good a certain job. We found that if you clap late on red and you never clap on the green, you might be high in attentiveness and high in restraint. People in that quadrant tend to be great students, great test-takers, great at project management or accounting.
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Tycho Brahe, the...
After that, he was said to have worn a realistic prosthetic of gold and silver that he would glue onto his face. Fortunately, Tycho didn't need his nose to continue his astronomical work. He kept studying the night sky and creating all sorts of instruments, including a building-sized quadrant for measuring
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A path to security for...
and whether they could get public services to their people, and if you did well on both of those, if you could get sanitation and electricity to your people and deliver vaccines, you were in the upper right-hand quadrant. And then we overlaid that with a map of places where journalists were being murdered.
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Brian Goldman: Doctors...
noticed some tenderness in the right lower quadrant and called the surgeons. The other one had a lot of diarrhea. I ordered some fluids to rehydrate him and asked my colleague to reassess him. And he did and when he noticed some tenderness in the right lower quadrant, called the surgeons. In both cases,
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Andreas Schleicher: Use...
It didn't change its economy. It didn't change the compositions of its population. It didn't fire its teachers. It changed its education policies and practice. Very impressive. And all that raises, of course, the What can we learn from those countries in the green quadrant
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Cultivating wealth and...
by debt aid and revenues from resource extraction that's what I call easy money and easy money has a very low required return on investment and what you get when you have capital the lower quadrant investment while you get low returns and
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Tim Jackson: An economic...
And it reveals to us, suddenly, the crux of the matter. What we've done is we've created economies. We've created systems, which systematically privilege, encourage, one narrow quadrant of the human soul
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Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
interest but relaxed again quickly the elephant continued to eat in peace while the pride enjoyed the cool of the marsh grass and shade from the nearby quadrant
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World Bluefin Tuna...
welcome to the world bluefin tuna fishing classic be taking place in a half mile square quadrant like everyone
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We can start winning the...
We're asking the doctor, now please start cutting away the tumor, and you'll see here the doctor just took the first quadrant of the tumor and you see that first quadrant is now missing. The doctor then took the second quadrant, the third, and now it appears to be everything. And so at this stage, the doctor came back to us and said, "Alright, I'm done. What do you want me to do?
Video examples
How to make applying for...
Instead it's about understanding the fit between your characteristics and what would make you good a certain job. We found that if you clap late on red and you never clap on the green, you might be high in attentiveness and high in restraint. People in that quadrant tend to be great students, great test-takers, great at project management or accounting.
Video examples
Tycho Brahe, the...
After that, he was said to have worn a realistic prosthetic of gold and silver that he would glue onto his face. Fortunately, Tycho didn't need his nose to continue his astronomical work. He kept studying the night sky and creating all sorts of instruments, including a building-sized quadrant for measuring
Video examples
A path to security for...
and whether they could get public services to their people, and if you did well on both of those, if you could get sanitation and electricity to your people and deliver vaccines, you were in the upper right-hand quadrant. And then we overlaid that with a map of places where journalists were being murdered.
Video examples
Brian Goldman: Doctors...
noticed some tenderness in the right lower quadrant and called the surgeons. The other one had a lot of diarrhea. I ordered some fluids to rehydrate him and asked my colleague to reassess him. And he did and when he noticed some tenderness in the right lower quadrant, called the surgeons. In both cases,
Video examples
Andreas Schleicher: Use...
It didn't change its economy. It didn't change the compositions of its population. It didn't fire its teachers. It changed its education policies and practice. Very impressive. And all that raises, of course, the What can we learn from those countries in the green quadrant
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Cultivating wealth and...
by debt aid and revenues from resource extraction that's what I call easy money and easy money has a very low required return on investment and what you get when you have capital the lower quadrant investment while you get low returns and
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Tim Jackson: An economic...
And it reveals to us, suddenly, the crux of the matter. What we've done is we've created economies. We've created systems, which systematically privilege, encourage, one narrow quadrant of the human soul
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Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
interest but relaxed again quickly the elephant continued to eat in peace while the pride enjoyed the cool of the marsh grass and shade from the nearby quadrant
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World Bluefin Tuna...
welcome to the world bluefin tuna fishing classic be taking place in a half mile square quadrant like everyone
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Michael McDonald
Rap is like any other genre: There are the people who are very creative with it and do remarkable things... and then there's that whole quadrant that sounds alike. There's great stuff that's taken the genre to a new level over the years, and 'Regulate' was one of those tracks that was kind of a landmark.
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Joel Silver
American Producer
The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
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Stephen Rodrick
American Journalist
Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.
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Michael McDonald
Rap is like any other genre: There are the people who are very creative with it and do remarkable things... and then there's that whole quadrant that sounds alike. There's great stuff that's taken the genre to a new level over the years, and 'Regulate' was one of those tracks that was kind of a landmark.
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Joel Silver
American Producer
The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
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Stephen Rodrick
American Journalist
Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.
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