quadrant

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one of four roughly equal sectors into which a plane, circle, area, or display is divided

   We might mount a machine-gun in each quadrant, shooting X-plosive bullets, through pressure gaskets in the walls.

From Middle English quadrant, from Old French cadran, quadrant and its etymon Latin quadrāns, -antis (“fourth part of something, quarter”). Doublet of quadrans.

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