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quadrant: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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quadrant1 CONSTRUCTCoordinate quadrantDESCARTES · FOUR REGIONS

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Mathematics

One of four regions the axes cut the plane into

In mathematics a quadrant is one of the four regions into which the two perpendicular axes divide the coordinate plane, numbered one to four and distinguished by the signs of the x- and y-coordinates of the points they contain. The coordinate framework of Descartes's La Géométrie gives rise to this fourfold partition of the plane. The referent is a region of an abstract coordinate plane fixed by coordinate sign, and it has nothing to do with a region of the belly or a sector of the visual field beyond the shared meaning of a quarter.[1]

Unit
One of four regions of the coordinate plane, set by coordinate signs
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Determined by the signs of a point's coordinates relative to the two axes

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axis1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructorigin2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

  1. Descartes, R. (1954). The geometry of René Descartes (D. E. Smith & M. L. Latham, Trans.). Dover. (Original work published 1637) ISBN 9780486600680

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