quadrant

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The Bruins are in the second quadrant, matching up with the third overall seed — Texas — on the Sacramento side of the bracket.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

U.S. equities fell from the top-right leading quadrant to the bottom-right weakening quadrant.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

They often happen in thunderstorms in rain bands away from the eye of the storm - typically forming in the right quadrant of a storm, the weather service notes.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

The roundhouse's southwest quadrant was reserved for keeping lambs indoors.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

On the night of 19 February 1604, in Prague, Johannes Kepler was out measuring the position of Mars in the sky with a metal instrument called a quadrant.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton