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Meanings of quadrant in английском

португальский
quadrante
каталонский
quadrant
испанский
cuadrante

A quarter of the circumference of a circle.

        quadrante

        Right angle.

              Synonyms
              Examples for "quarter-circle"
              Examples for "quarter-circle"
              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
              Usage of quadrant in английском
              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
              6
              A direct wormhole connection to the quadrant from the Alignment's primary military base?
              Torch of Freedom
              7
              The needle was removed percutaneously through the right middle quadrant of the abdomen.
              Pubmed
              8
              He pointed up, suddenly, into a far quadrant of the sky.
              Perdido Street Station
              9
              We located three sats in quadrant two and destroyed them all.
              The Runaway Asteroid
              10
              He pointed to a bright red cluster in the left-hand quadrant.
              Deep black
              11
              Much of the northeast quadrant was open land-hay, timothy, and alfalfa.
              Salem’s Lot
              12
              Abdomen moves fairly, and is resonant, except in right lower quadrant.
              Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 / Being Mainly a...
              13
              Histologic examination showed significant photoreceptor preservation in the injected quadrant of the retina.
              Pubmed
              14
              A giant ball now, filling all that quadrant of the heavens.
              Brigands of the Moon
              15
              Five in the northeast quadrant and only one in the southwest.
              The Forever War
              16
              But the fourth quadrant, which contained the Red One's abiding place, was taboo.
              The Red One
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              Translations for quadrant
              португальский
              quadrante
              каталонский
              quadrant
              испанский
              cuadrante
              Quadrant through the time
              Quadrant across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common