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  • noun Plural form of quadrant.

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  • Think of your breast as if it were a pie marked into four even pieces, called quadrants.

    The 10 Best Questions Dede Bonner 2008

  • Think of your breast as if it were a pie marked into four even pieces, called quadrants.

    The 10 Best Questions Dede Bonner 2008

  • Consumed in summertime by "quadrants," focus groups and quick-hitting promotional bombardment in service of wide openings of light and tasty fare, their mindsets change abruptly in September, when a movie studio's fancy typically turns to the kind of heavyweight pictures that win Golden Globes.

    Marketers Make Holiday Switch 2006

  • Its fairly simple though, and may be a good place to start while working on a software solution mainly because it only requires very coarse grained eye tracking - you only have to know which of six 'quadrants' the eye is looking at.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Through synchronous reiteration of obliquely oriented divisions, four founder cells thus give rise to lineages (A, B, C, D) that represent 'quadrants' distributed in a rotationally symmetric pattern about the AV axis (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • This is then divided up into quadrants in which I rotate the crops every year so that nothing in the same family grows in the same space more than once every four years.

    My Garden, part 4 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • This is more classically a quadrant diagram (the basic Gartner tool): vertical scale is Good with People, the horiz. is Good with ideas; then the quadrants are:

    Who’s in your office? 2010

  • This is the best place by far I have ever lived, and I've lived in all four quadrants of the U.S.

    Safety in lakeside 2009

  • Arranged concentrically in the circular space, the chairs sat divided into quadrants by a pair of perpendicular aisles that crossed at their midpoints, where a small platform allowed for the elevation of a single speaker at a time.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Arranged concentrically in the circular space, the chairs sat divided into quadrants by a pair of perpendicular aisles that crossed at their midpoints, where a small platform allowed for the elevation of a single speaker at a time.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

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