quadrant

Definitions

General Science

• noun a device for measuring the height of stars, formerly used in calculating direction at sea

Aviation

• noun a device shaped like a quarter of a circle

Cars & Driving

• noun a guide which indicates the position of the gear selector of an automatic gearbox
• noun the V-shaped toothed section of a worm-and-sector steering box

Construction

• An angle-measuring instrument.

Electronics

• A circular arc of 90°, occupying one fourth of the circumference of a circle.
• The area occupied by a quadrant (1).
• Something, such as a part, in the shape of a quadrant (2).
• One of four equal areas a plane, region, or space is divided into.
• One of the four regions, within the same plane, divided by the axes of a Cartesian coordinate system.

Medical

• noun one of four sectors of the body thought of as being divided by the sagittal plane and the intertubercular plane

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