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Meanings of quarter-circle in English

Portuguese
quadrante
Catalan
quadrant
Spanish
cuadrante

A quarter of the circumference of a circle.

        quadrante
        Synonyms
        Examples for "quadrant"
        Examples for "quadrant"
        1
        She moved her left hand to the power quadrant and engaged retro-igniters.
        Genellan: planetfall
        2
        In principle, quadrant and astrolabe are easy to use to establish latitude.
        1492 the year our world began
        3
        Lee's guns are grumbling in all the southwest quadrant of the horizon.
        Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
        4
        For measuring the ordinary potential gradient we have two self-recording quadrant electrometers.
        Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
        5
        Patients presented with epigastric and right upper quadrant discomfort and hepatomegaly.
        Pubmed
        Usage of quarter-circle in English
        1
        Sometimes the tall, black forecastle swung in a quarter-circle; sometimes the stern went round.
        The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
        2
        A pale quarter-circle has been traced in the varnish by the door's slow-swinging path.
        A Hundred Thousand Worlds
        3
        We watched the players' bodies as they jogged through the green quarter-circle of the outfield.
        Mysterious Skin
        4
        His view was restricted, but there was no sign of life on the quarter-circle it commanded.
        Ranching for Sylvia
        5
        The artificial satellite was swinging up behind them, and was only a quarter-circle about Earth behind them.
        Space Tug
        6
        The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile.
        Darkly Dreaming Dexter
        7
        He lowered his bicycle to the ground and pulled the screen door through its quarter-circle in the dirt.
        The story of edgar sawtelle
        8
        The tangle finally ended when the black archer backed away in a quick quarter-circle and snaked his ankle around the leg of a wooden stool.
        A Day Dark as Night
        9
        Facebook Twitter Pinterest The golden spiral is a patchwork made up of quarter-circles.
        The Guardian
        10
        The flat was quarter-circled by a waterless creek upon whose banks grew a few misshapen and splintered cottonwoods.
        The Fighting Shepherdess
        11
        "Yes," said his wife, "I like that and the quarter-circling in of those front corners; those balconies, too."
        Elsie at the World's Fair
        Translations for quarter-circle
        Portuguese
        quadrante
        Catalan
        quadrant
        Spanish
        cuadrante