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Definition: QUADRA |
QUADRANoun1. A fillet, or listel. 2. The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like. |
Date "QUADRA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Quadra \Quad"ra\, noun; plural Quadr[ae]. [Latin expression, square, the socle, platband, fillet.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Quadra The border round a bas-relief. In the Santa Croce of Florence is a quadra round a bas relief representing the Madonna, in white terracotta. Several other figures are introduced. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The latter was replaced the following year with the Quadra 950, with a CPU speed of 66MHz. The line was joined by a number of "800-series" machines in a new mid-sized case, starting with the Quadra 800, and the "600-series" pizza-box desktop cases with the Quadra 610.
In 1991 the Quadra AV series was released, consisting of the 800-series Quadra 840av and the 600-series Quadra 660av, at 80MHz and 50MHz respectively. Both included a Motorola 56000-series DSP and a large new connector on the back to interact with it for audio and video processing. The AV models also introduced speach software known as Macintalk Pro and allowed the computer to be controlled through the microphone. However all of these features were poorly supported in software, and the two AV machines were the only ones to ever use the 56000.
The Quadra name was also used for the successors to the Centris models that briefly existed during 1993. Centris was a "mid-range" series of systems between the Quadra on the high end and the LC on the low end, but it was later decided that there were too many product lines and the name was dropped. Just to add to the confusion, several machines of this era were also called Performa
The last use of the name appeared to be for the Quadra 630, which was a variation on the LC 630 using a "full" 64040 instead of the LC's 640LC40, and introduced together with it in 1994. The 630 was the first Mac to move to the IDE based drive bus, whereas all earlier machines had used SCSI.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Macintosh Quadra."
Crosswords: QUADRA |
| English words defined with "QUADRA": Quadrae. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "QUADRA": Motorola 68040 ♦ Power Macintosh. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "QUADRA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (dining table), Portuguese (block, court, epoch, quatrain, season, square). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Quadra (2000) | |
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 | Boca de Quadra. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | U.S. Customs agents checking up on the cargo of the Quadra. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "QUADRA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "QUADRA" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 85% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (common) | 10% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "QUADRA": quadra-based. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "QUADRA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | แม่พิมพ์ขนา"เล็ก. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "QUADRA": quadrangle, quadrangles, quadrangular, quadrans, quadrant, quadrantal, quadrantes, quadrants, quadraphonic, quadraphonics, quadrat, quadrate, quadrated, quadrates, quadratic, quadratically, quadratics, quadrating, quadrats, quadrature, quadratures. (additional references) | |
Words containing "QUADRA": biquadratic, biquadratics. (additional references) | |
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"QUADRA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ouadda, Qadr, Qadri, quada, Quadam, quadar, Quaderia, Quadram, quadrex, Quadri, quadro, Quadrum, Quaere, quara, Quebra, Queira, Ruxandra, Zurada. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "QUADRA" (pronounced 'Quad"ra'): Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Amphineura, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Appoggiatura, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Camorra, Capibara, Capybara, Caracara, Cesura, Chara, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera, Cinura, Cora, Crantara, Damara, Datura, Dura, Durra, ERA, Ferrara, Flora, Gastrura, Gemara, hegira, Laura, Legatura, lira, Lyra, Macrura, Madeira, Madrepora, Masora, Millepora. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-q-r-u" | |
-2 letters: aqua, aura, dura, quad. | |
-3 letters: qua, rad, urd. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-q-r-u" | |
+1 letter: quadrat. | |
+2 letters: jacquard, quadrans, quadrant, quadrate, quadrats, quadriga, quandary. | |
+3 letters: jacquards, quadrants, quadrated, quadrates, quadratic, quadrigae, quadrivia. | |
+4 letters: masquerade, quadrangle, quadrantal, quadrantes, quadratics, quadrating, quadrature, quadrennia, quadrivial, quandaries, radiopaque. | |
+5 letters: biquadratic, equatorward, headquarter, liquidambar, maquiladora, masqueraded, masquerader, masquerades, quadrangles, quadratures, quadrennial, quadrupedal, quarantined. | |
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