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Quadrant

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Quadrant may refer to:

Companies

  • Quadrant Cycle Company, 1899 manufacturers in Britain of the Quadrant motorcar
  • Quadrant (motorcycles), one of the earliest British motorcycle manufacturers, established in Birmingham in 1901
  • Quadrant Private Equity, an Australian investment firm
  • Quadrant Records, an independent record label
  • Quadrant Televentures Ltd., a subsidiary of Videocon Telecom, India

Geography

Mathematics

  • Quadrant (circle), a circular sector equal to one quarter of a circle, or half a semicircle
  • Quadrant (plane geometry), a sector of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system
  • Quadrant (solid geometry)

Military

Science and technology

  • Galactic quadrant, one out of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way galaxy
  • Quadrant (abdomen), a division of the abdominal cavity
  • Quadrant (architecture) a curve in a wall or vaulted ceiling of a building
  • Quadrant (instrument), an angle or time measuring instrument
  • Quadrant (semigraphics), a 2×2 semigraphical pixel array in computing

Places

Other

  • Quadrant (album), a 1977 album by Joe Pass and Milt Jackson
  • Quadrant (college basketball), a performance measure derived from the Rating Percentage Index
  • Quadrant (magazine), an Australian literary and cultural journal
  • Triumph Quadrant, a four-cylinder motorcycle
  • A division of dentition - see Glossary of dentistry
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