| 单词 | quadrant |
| 释义 | quadrant (once / 5405 pages) 1n 2n A quadrant is one-fourth of a circle. When you bake an apple pie and then cut it equally so that you and three of your friends get pieces that are the same size, you'll each get a quadrant of the pie. When a circle is evenly divided into four sections by two perpendicular lines, each of the four areas is a quadrant. In fact, anything that's split into four equal parts can be described as being made up of quadrants, like a quadrant of a public park. The Latin root word is quadrantem, fourth part, and for many years quadrant was used to mean six hours, or one-quarter of a day. WORD FAMILYquadrant: quadrants USAGE EXAMPLESA snaking, pale-wood bookshelf divides the room into cosseting quadrants, scaling it down for pint-size patrons. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) "I've given Focus Features a story that makes sense in a certain quadrant, and makes sense to release now," says Nichols. Los Angeles Times(Nov 16, 2016) Watson artificial-intelligence technology to build a set of answers to employee questions over time, said Jason Van Anden, founder of Quadrant 2. Wall Street Journal(Nov 15, 2016) 1 1n any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes Hyper area, country a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) 2n the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle Hyper area, country a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) 3n a quarter of the circumference of a circle 2Syn|Hyper quarter-circle line a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent n a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies Hyper measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something |
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