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One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.

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One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.

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One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.

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A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.

The pilots were all Indians, and they used the forestaff and quadrant for their observations.

The first root after zero is thus in the third quadrant, corresponding to m =1.

The old method of giving quadrant elevation by clinometer was obviously too slow.

Flamsteed, from measurements made in 1689 and succeeding years with his mural quadrant, similarly concluded that the declination of the Pole Star was 40" less in July than in September.

It is found that the alteration of the tangent elevation is almost insensible, but the quadrant elevation requires the addition or subtraction of the angle of sight.

There are three fronts; the principal, towards College Green, is a colonnade of the Ionic order, with façade and two projecting wings; it connects with the western portico by a colonnade of the same order, forming the quadrant of a circle.

He ascertained the distribution of electricity among several spheres (whether equal or unequal) placed in contact in a straight line; and he measured the distribution of 2 In 1878 Clerk Maxwell repeated Cavendish's experiments with improved apparatus and the employment of a Kelvin quadrant electrometer as a means of detecting the absence of charge on the inner conductor after it had been connected to the outer case, and was thus able to show that if the law of electric attraction varies inversely as the nth power of the distance, then the exponent n must have a value of 2 t Isua.

The astrolabe quadrant or cross-staff enabled the mariner to determine"his latitude with a certain amount of accuracy, but for his longitude 1 See fig.

In speaking of quadrant elevation a brief reference was made to the necessity for making an allowance for difference of level of gun and target.

The first logarithms to the base e were published by John Speidell in his New Logarithmes (London, 1619), which contains hYPerbolic log sines, tangents and secants for every minute of the quadrant to 5 places of decimals.

Quadrant electrometers have also been designed especially for measuring extremely small potential differences.

If the two quadrants are at different potentials, the needle moves from one quadrant towards the other, and the image of a spot of light on the scale is therefore displaced.

She even makes the rebel captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) her second in command, gives the convict Tom Paris a temporary Starfleet commission, and adds two Delta Quadrant natives to her crew as native guides.

A small upper thoracic laminectomy is carried out and the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord is sectioned with specially designed blades.

There may be pain in the right lower quadrant where the contents from the small intestine enter the large intestine (caecum ).

Quadrant III Quadrant III gives a macroscopic, not microscopic view, in other words a ' bird's-eye-view ' .

Perform rotational movements and downward pressure over this quadrant while keeping the patella stabilized with the non-dominant index finger and thumb.

Lost in the Delta Quadrant, the crew of the USS Voyager face the perils of the long journey back to Earth.

Only play in more closely at using a quadrant.

At present, the south east quadrant of the town is the least well served by public parking.

The Federation, Cardassia, the Klingons, Romulans and all races in the alpha quadrant must learn to reconcile their differences and make peace to unite against a common (and deadly) enemy.

The remaining survivors fled and scattered themselves across the delta quadrant and beyond.

His most dangerous 'trick' is when he tosses the Enterprise into the Delta Quadrant, where they meet the implacable Borg for the first time.

Janeway's task to hold her crew together and to integrate the Maquis and battling the Borg as they tried to return from the Delta Quadrant, gave her a unique perspective.

The big three was comprised of Commander Benjamin Sisko, a Starfleet officer and Major Kira Nerys, a Bajoran military officer and Security Offiicer Odo, a shape shifter from another quadrant.

Star Trek Voyager provided more than one first in the Star Trek universe as the little ship entered a wormhole and found itself lost in the delta quadrant.

He also compiled astronomical tables and a treatise on the quadrant.

The curve is symmetrical about the line x = y, and consists of two infinite branches asymptotic to the line x+y+a = o and a loop in the first quadrant.

Symmetrical Electrometers include the dry pile electrometer and Kelvin's quadrant electrometer.

Missouri lies very frequently in the dangerous quadrant of the great cyclonic storms passing over the Mississippi valley - indeed, northern Missouri, lies in the area of maximum frequency of tornadoes.

He had meantime (in 1742) been appointed to succeed Edmund Halley as astronomer royal; his enhanced reputation enabled him to apply successfully for an instrumental outfit at a cost of 1000; and with an 8-foot quadrant completed for him in 1750 by John Bird (1709-1776), he accumulated at Greenwich in ten years materials of inestimable value for the reform of astronomy.

He also invented a reflecting sextant for observing the distance between the moon and the fixed stars, - the same in every essential as the instrument which is still in everyday use at sea under the name of Hadley's quadrant.

With Gunter's name are associated several useful inventions, descriptions of which are given in his treatises on the Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant and other Instruments.

Gunter's Quadrant, an instrument made of wood, brass or other substance, containing a kind of stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the equinoctial, the eye being supposed to be placed in one of the poles, so that the tropic, ecliptic, and horizon form the arcs of circles, but the hour circles are other curves, drawn by means of several altitudes of the sun for some particular latitude every year.

These suggestions took practical shape by a decree of the National Assembly in 1790 appointing a committee to consider the suitability of adopting either the length of the seconds pendulum, a fraction of the length of the equator or a fraction of the quadrant of the terrestrial meridian..

Nevil Mas kelyne, who succeeded him in 1764, set on foot, in 1767, the publication of the Nautical Almanac, and about the same time had an achromatic telescope fitted to the Greenwich M aske mural quadrant.

It was the only parish church by Wren to have an apse, which was joined to the main body by a quadrant bay.

Going further eastwards, nine houses had been constructed in the Quadrant, ideal for sea bathing quarters.

The inflammatory mass around the cholecystocolic fistula in the right upper quadrant was left undisturbed to minimize operative morbidity.

Again, these symbols indicate the nature of the transformations when moving from a hexagram in one quadrant to a hexagram in one quadrant to a hexagram in another.

If the man does not individualize in quadrant two, then the therapist can proceed to ask quadrant four questions.

The shared bathroom is fully tiled and has quadrant shower, toilet, wash basin and heated towel rail.

The vigorous depression will drift away northwards, leaving winds mostly coming from the northwest quadrant.

This is situated in the northeast quadrant of the city close to the eastern section of the city wall.

The component label is a 50 mm x 50 mm label which is affixed to the lower left quadrant of the base label.

John's ulcer was generally shallow and covered in red granulation tissue but was deeper in the lower, outer quadrant.

There is also Halley's 8 foot mural quadrant of 1725.

The development of the south west quadrant of the village was completed in 1996 with the Alder Way area.

A second educational position represented on the top right quadrant of Figure I, is discovery learning.

The second part of this arc starts at the 12 o ' clock quadrant point and ends at roughly 10 o ' clock.