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Quadrant can mean: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary full URL is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

HMS Quadrant (G11), a WW-II British/Australian warship.
One of four regions of the Cartesian coordinate system.
One of the four divisions of the street system in many cities.
A navigational instrument similar to a sextant.
Quadrant is an Australian conservative journal. [1]

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Categories: Disambiguation HMS Quadrant (G11) was a Q class destroyer laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne in England on 24 September 1940, launched on 28 February 1942 and commissioned on 26 November 1942. ... Cartesian means relating to the French mathematician and philosopher Descartes, who, among other things, worked to merge algebra and Euclidean geometry. ... An address is a code and abstract concept expressing the fixed location of a home, business or other building on the earths surface. ... A sextant is a measuring instrument used to measure the angle of elevation of a celestial object above the horizon. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...

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American Astronomical Society Teacher Resource Agent: The Quadrant (3097 words)
	To check that the quadrant template is properly mounted on the stick, you should find someplace with a clear horizon and sight the stick toward the distant horizon; it should then read zero, since 0 degree is indeed the altitude of the horizon.
	The quadrant is being used to measure a fairly small angle here: compute your average value, find the range, and compute the percentage error (100 times the standard deviation divided by the average).
	Another possible sources of systematic error with the quadrant is fastening the protractor section to the straw at an angle or not hanging the string from the proper spot.

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