Dictionary Entry
quadrant
quadrant is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The fourth part; the quarter. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The fourth part; the quarter.
- 2noun
The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90�, or one subtending a right angle at the center.
- 3noun
One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.
- 4noun
An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90�, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.
- 5noun
a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies
- 6noun
the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle
- 7noun
any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes
- 8noun
a quarter of the circumference of a circle
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