quadrant
French, noun/ka.dʁɑ̃/
quadrant is spelled Q-U-A-D-R-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quadrant is a French masculine noun meaning “quadrant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quart de circonférence”.
What does quadrant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinequadrant
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Quart de circonférence. 2. Quart du plan délimité par l’axe des x et par l’axe des y sur un système de coordonnées rectangulaires. 3. Quart du méridien terrestre. 4. Instrument de navigation pour faire le point, équipé de deux miroirs qui permettaient de mettre en correspondance la ligne d’horizon et l’astre repère. L’octant et le sextant sont dérivés du quadrant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of quadrant
- quadrants plural
- quadrans archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quadrant?
- /ka.dʁɑ̃/
- \kwa.dʁɑ̃\
- \ka.dʁɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quadrant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quadrant in French?
quadrant appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).