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QUADRANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("quadrant" is a kind of...):
measuring device; measuring instrument; measuring system (instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("quadrant" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("quadrant" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Sense 4
Meaning:
A quarter of the circumference of a circle
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("quadrant" is a kind of...):
line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)
Context examples:
A blind pouch-like commencement of the colon in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen at the end of the small intestine and the start of the large intestine.
(Cecum, NCI Thesaurus)
The first part of the colon (large intestine) that starts in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen and ends at the transverse colon in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.
(Ascending Colon, NCI Thesaurus)
Under that, the miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Types of breast-sparing surgery include lumpectomy (removal of the lump), quadrantectomy (removal of one quarter, or quadrant, of the breast), and segmental mastectomy (removal of the cancer as well as some of the breast tissue around the tumor and the lining over the chest muscles below the tumor).
(Breast-sparing surgery, NCI Dictionary)
Types of breast-conserving surgery include lumpectomy (removal of the lump), quadrantectomy (removal of one quarter, or quadrant, of the breast), and segmental mastectomy (removal of the cancer as well as some of the breast tissue around the tumor and the lining over the chest muscles below the tumor).
(Breast-conserving surgery, NCI Dictionary)
Severe preeclampsia associated with any of the following findings: thrombocytopenia (platelets less than 100,000 per microliter), impaired liver function (twice normal elevation of hepatic transaminases; severe, persistent right upper quadrant or epigastric pain), progressive renal insufficiency (serum creatinine greater than 1.1 mg/dL or doubling of baseline in the absence of other renal disease), pulmonary edema, or new-onset cerebral or visual disturbances.
(HELLP Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty’s mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
