Quadrant

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Quadrant may refer to:

• A sector equal to one quarter of a circle, or half a semicircle
• HMS Quadrant (G11), a Second World War British/Australian warship.
• One of four regions of a Cartesian coordinate system#Two-dimensional coordinate system
• One of four Address (geography)#Quadrants in a city's street system.
• A measuring instrument similar to a sextant.
• An astrolabe quadrant, was used during medieval times, among other things, to tell time from altitude of a sun or one of bright stars
• One of the four Galactic quadrants (Star Trek) in Star Trek.
• Quadrant (magazine), an Australian journal
• Quadrants Fanzine, a fan magazine published in the mid 90's in Leicester, England
• A 90-degree segment of an astrological chart is called a quadrant
• An English automobile, manufactured from 1905 to 1906
• Quadrant Shopping Centre, Swansea
• The Quebec Conference (codenamed "QUADRANT")

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