quadrant

Other forms of quadrant

plural

quadrants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quadrant

What does quadrant mean?

quadrant means "a quarter of the circumference of a circle". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quadrant?

quadrant has 2 syllables: qua-drant. The stress falls on "qua". In IPA it is /ˈkwɑdɹənt/.

What is another word for quadrant?

Close synonyms include quarter-circle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quadrant a common word?

quadrant is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.