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quadrant

One quarter of a circle. When plotting coordinates on a graph, the x- and y-axes may intersect to create four quadrants. The first quadrant lies in the region where both x and y are positive.

The remaining three quadrants are numbered in an anticlockwise direction. Thus in the second quadrant, x is negative and y is positive, in the third quadrant, both are negative and in the fourth quadrant x is positive and y negative.
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Well that Ahab's quadrant was furnished with colored glasses, through which to take sight of that solar fire.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Before long he knew where Disko kept the old green-crusted quadrant that they called the "hog-yoke" - under the bed-bag in his bunk.
Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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