Quad

Definition: Quad

Quad

Noun

1. One of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy.

2. A muscle of the thigh that extends the leg.

3. (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words.

4. A rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Computing

Census

Chemistry

Electrical Engineering

Energy

Literature

Mining

Post & Telecom

Slang

Statistics

Weather

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quad

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Synonyms: Quad

Abode

Street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.

Four

Quadrangle, quad.

Heat

Calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie; kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie; British Thermal Unit, B.T.U.; therm, quad.

Information

Bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment.

Crosswords: Quad

ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 (2003)

C'mon N' Ride It (The Train) (performing artist: Quad City DJ's)

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References

• Quad Systems Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Audubons Sel Birds & Quad No a (reference)

• Kissing in the Quad : How I Became a Stanford Man During the Reagan Years (reference)

• Quad Cities Americas Mosaic (reference)

• Quad Cities Illinois and Iowa Street Atlas (reference)

• Quad World (reference)

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Periodicals

• Quad Wrangle (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Quad Zone (reference)

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Music

• Quad Cities (reference)

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High Tech

• Sylvania SY-550 14" Color Quad Combo Monitor w/ Built-in 960-Hour Time Lapse VCR (reference)

• ATV: Quad Power Racing (reference)

• Quake 2: Quad Damage (reference)

• 8052 QUAD XEON MP SERVER 10 SCA (reference)

• 3dforce S-128 Quad Agp 4x 128MBsis-315 Tv & Dvi Out DVD (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• THE CLUB Quad Lock System ? Red (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Betty and Gene Bradley, managers of the Knights Landing Harbor Apartments, CA., take a break in the quad of the complex. Credit: USDA.

A 40mm gun crew prepares to bombard enemy installations along the Korean coast, circa October 1950 - February 1951. Photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 21 February 1951. Note radar antenna on this quad 40mm mount and ammunition loaded in guns. Another 40mm mount, pointed in the opposite direction, is in the upper left background. Credit: NAVY.

USS Cony (DD-508) lays a smoke screen near USS West Virginia (BB-48), to protect shipping off Leyte from Japanese air attack, during the landings there on 20 October 1944. Note manned anti-aircraft batteries on board the battleship, including a Mark 51 director in the foreground, 20mm gun at left, 40mm quad gun mount in center and 5"/38 twin gun mounts beyond. Credit: NAVY.

Gunner's Mate Second Class Charles J. Hansen working on a 40mm quad machine gun mount, during the battleship's shakedown period, circa August 1944. Note his tattoos, commemorating service on USS Vincennes (CA-44) and shipmates lost with her in the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942. Credit: NAVY.

View on board the ship, looking aft from amidships on the starboard side. Taken on 11-13 May 1943, before or just after Task Force 18's 13 May bombardment of Japanese positions on Kolombangara and New Georgia islands. The ship immediately astern is USS St. Louis (CL-49). Note details of Nashville's after superstructure, main battery gun director, and the 1.1-inch quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount at left. An enlarged view of this mount is seen in Photo # NH 97963 (cropped). Credit: NAVY.

Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid (left center) with General Douglas MacArthur (center) on the flag bridge of USS Phoenix (CL-46) during the pre-invasion bombardment of Los Negros Island, at the east end of Manus Island, 28 February 1944. At right is Colonel Lloyd Labrbas, acting aide to General MacArthur. Note 40mm quad gun mount in the background. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, following overhaul, 1 May 1944. This view looks aft along the port side, with the ship's after smokestack at left. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Note gratings around the 20mm gun in lower center; spare 40mm gun barrels on the deck beside the 40mm quad gun mounting in lower left; Mark 34 Gun Director with antenna for a Mark 8 radar and Mark 37 Gun Director with antenna for a Mark 4 radar atop the after superstructure. Credit: NAVY.

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, 22 January 1945, following battle damage repair and overhaul. Photographed from a Navy Yard crane, this "plan view" of the ship's midships area shows a number of recent alterations, enclosed in white lines drawn on the image. Notable features include the forward smokestack, with a new electronics platform mounted on it; 40mm quad gun mounts; life rafts; Mark 34 Gun Director; and a variety of equipment on the ship's forward superstructure platforms. Credit: NAVY.

Ship's after 5"/38 twin gun mount burning, as her crew tried to control fires on 19 March 1945. The carrier had been hit by a Japanese air attack while operating off the coast of Japan. Photographed from USS Santa Fe (CL-60), which extinguished the fire in this gun mount by playing streams of water through the mount's open door. Later, the other 5"/38 twin gun mount and the 40mm quad machine gun mount (at right) also burned. Note ammunition loaded in the feed racks of the 40mm guns. Credit: NAVY.

View looking aft from the island of USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the mission's launching point. USS Gwin (DD-433) is coming alongside, as USS Nashville (CL-43) steams in the distance. Eight of the mission's sixteen B-25B bombers are parked within view, as are two of the ship's SBD scout bombers. Note midships elevator, torpedo elevator, arresting gear and flight deck barriers in the lower portion of the photo, and 1.1" quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount at left. Credit: NAVY.

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Expressions using "quad": dotted quad ♦ mutton quad ♦ quad around ♦ quad cable ♦ quad word. Additional references.

Beginning with "quad": quad-cam, quad-fx, quad-grams, quad-line, quad-processor, Quad-x.

Albanian

spacio i gjerë, kuadrat (Chequer, inset, Square), katërkëndësh (four-cornered, quadrangle, quadrangular, quadrate, quadrilateral, tetragon, tetragonal, tetrahedron, trapezium). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مريع البياض, ‏وسع بالفروق في الطباعة, ‏ساحة الكلية, ‏الفرق صفيحة رقيقة لمسح الأخطاء على الآلة الكاتبة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разделка (quadrat, stud), четириъгълник (quadrangle, quadrilateral, tetragon), четириъгълен вътрешен двор, четириного (quadruped, tetrapod), куадро, квадрат (pane, quadrat, quadrate), оставям бяло поле. (various references)

Chinese 

方形字�". (various references)

Czech

nádvoří univerzitní koleje. (various references)

Danish

to ledningspar, methyl-tert-butylether, kvadrant (quadrant), geviert (mutton quad), firkantet celle, firerkredsloeb (phantom circuit), firdobbelt, duplexforbindelse (phantom circuit). (various references)

Dutch

quad, vierdraadsgroep, uitvulling (mutton quad), stergroep, methyl-tertiaire-butyl-ether, methyl-terbutyl-ether, fantoomkring (phantom circuit), elementair vierkant, D.M.-groep. (various references)

Finnish

tasava (mutton quad), nelikko (firkin), nelikierre, neliö (square). (various references)

French

quarte (quarte), quadruple (quadruple), quadriller, methyl-tert-butyl ether, methyl tertio-buthyl-ether, cour (quadrangle), circuit fantôme, circuit combiné, cellule carrée de base, cellule, cadratin (mutton quad), cadrât. (various references)

German

vierfach (four fold, four times, fourfold, quadruple), Vierling (quadruplet), Viereck (four-sided figure, quadrangle, quadrilateral, square). (various references)

Greek 

συνδυασμένο κύκλωμα (phantom circuit), φανταστικό κύκλωμα (phantom circuit), τετράγωνο εμ (mutton quad), τετράγωνο τύπου (quadrat), τετράγωνο (quadrangle, quadrate, quod, square, tetragon), τετράδυμο (quadrat, quadruplet), τετράδα (four-bit byte, tetrad), τετραγωνίδιο. (various references)

Hebrew 

מרובע (four part, quadrangular, quadrate). (various references)

Hungarian

dutyi (booby-hatch, calaboose, cells, jail, jailhouse, jug, lockup, nick, quod, zoo), zárt belső udvar (quadrangle), siti (big house, can, jug, nick, pen, stir, zoo), négyszög (quadrangle, quadrant, quadrilateral, Square, tetragon), űrpótló négyszög (quadrat). (various references)

Indonesian

pelataran (backyard). (various references)

Italian

quadrilatero (four sided, quadrangle, quadrilateral), quadratone (mutton quad), quadrangolo (quadrangle, square), quad, uno di quattro gemelli (quadruplet), metilterbutiletere, metil tributil etere, cortile (backyard, court, courtyard, quadrangle, yard), circuito virtuale (phantom circuit, virtual circuit, virtual connection), cella (cell, cubicle), bicoppia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

半� � (en quad), 全�' (em, em quad, full-pitch character). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"かく (em, em quad, full-pitch character), は�"かく (anti-nuclear, en quad, half-width characters). (various references)

Manx

kerrinag. (various references)

Pig Latin

adquay

Portuguese

quadrúplo, quadrângulo (quadrangle), quádruplo (fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate), prisão (accouchement, apprehension, arrest, bastille, bond, cage, captivity, choky, confinement, constrained, custody, detention, duress, entanglement, ewer, jail, jug, limbo, noose, pokey, prison, quod), cadeia (cage, calaboose, catena, chain, choky, clink, cufflink, ewer, fetter, gaol, jail, jug, network, orlop, penitentiary, pokey, prison, prison house, quod, shackle, stockade, ward). (various references)

Russian 

четверка (four, quaternion). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmak manji od veličine slova (quadrat), četvorougaonik (foursquare, quadrangle). (various references)

Spanish

reajuste de espacios mediante cuadrados (mutton quad), patio (area, areaway, Causey, court, courtyard, farmyard, forecourt, Grove, patio, playground, quadrangle, schoolyard, stalls, yard), metilterbutil éter, cuadrilátero (boxing ring, prize ring, quadrangle, quadrilateral, ring), cuadrete, cuadrángulo (quadrangle), cuádruple (fourfold, quadruple), circuito fantasma (phantom circuit), circuito combinado (phantom circuit), casilla (box, hut, mailbox, pigeonhole, pocket, section, Square, stall, subject), campo de instrucción. (various references)

Swedish

gård i college. (various references)

Thai

ชิ้นส่วนโลหะที่ใช้ในการเรียงพิมพ์ (quadrat), สี่เหลี่ยมจัตุรัส (square), ฝาแฝ�"ที่เกิ�"มาพร้อมกัน 4 คน, ประกอบ�"้วยคน 4 คน. (various references)

Turkish

dairenin dörtte biri (quadrant, quarter circle), dörtlü yapmak, dörtlü sarmak, dörtlü (four, foursome, quadr-, quadraphonic, quadripartite, quadro-, quadrophonic, quadruple, quadruplet, quart, quartet, quartette, quater-, quaternary, Square, tetra-, tetrad), dörtgen (quadrangle, quadrilateral, Square, tetragon), dört telli kablo, dört ayaklı (quadruped, quadrupedal), dördüzlerden biri (quadruplet), avlu (atrium, close, court, courtyard, Dooryard, forecourt, Garth, quadrangle, yard), çeyrek daire (quadrant, quarter circle). (various references)

Ukrainian

чотирикутник (quadrangle, quadrilateral), четверня, шпація. (various references)

Vietnamese 

xung quanh có nh� (quadrangle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quad": quadded, quadding, quadplex, quadplexes, quadrangle, quadrangles, quadrangular, quadrans, quadrant, quadrantal, quadrantes, quadrants, quadraphonic, quadraphonics, quadrat, quadrate, quadrated, quadrates, quadratic, quadratically, quadratics, quadrating, quadrats, quadrature, quadratures, quadrennia, quadrennial, quadrennially, quadrennials, quadrennium, quadrenniums, quadric, quadricentennial, quadricentennials, quadriceps, quadricepses, quadrics, quadriga, quadrigae, quadrilateral, quadrilaterals, quadrille, quadrilles, quadrillion, quadrillions, quadrillionth, quadrillionths, quadripartite, quadriphonic, quadriphonics, quadriplegia. (additional references)

Words ending with "quad": squad. (additional references)

Words containing "quad": biquadratic, biquadratics, squadded, squadding, squadron, squadroned, squadroning, squadrons, squads, unnilquadium, unnilquadiums. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquad, equad, fuad, iquid, kad, qac, qad, Qadi, Qadr, qaid, qau, qaus, Qia, qiad, Qma, qoid, Qra, Qsubd, quaa, quac, quada, quadd, Quade, quadi, quado, quady, quadz, quae, quaed, quaf, quag, quah, quai, quaid, quak, qual, quald, quam, quamdiu, quan, quand, quao, quar, quard, Quat, Quatbi, quav, quaw, quax, quaz, qud, qudy, quead, qued, quede, queed, quef, queid, querd, queyd, quiad, quida, quide, quidi, quido, quidy, quied, quig, quih, quij, quild, quim, quin, quind, quiod, quipd, quird, quis, quiu, quiv, quiw, quoad, quoc, quod, quoda, quode, quoj, Quow, quox, qurd, Qwa, Qwaa, qwuid, qyad. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: qua.

-2 letters: ad.

+1 letter: quads, squad.

+2 letters: diquat, quaked, squads.

+3 letters: calqued, casqued, diquats, equaled, equated, opaqued, quacked, quadded, quadrat, quadric, quaffed, quailed, quanted, quashed, querida, quondam, squalid, squared.

+4 letters: acquired, adequacy, adequate, antiqued, aquacade, aqueduct, charquid, daiquiri, equalled, jacquard, liquated, oldsquaw, quaalude, quadding, quadplex, quadrans, quadrant, quadrate, quadrats, quadrics, quadriga, quadroon, quandang, quandary, quandong, quarried, quavered, quayside, queridas, squadded, squadron, squalled, squander, squashed, squatted, squawked, squeaked, squealed.