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 complicated process involves Maryland taking over control of the track, building a training center and eventually closing Laurel Park to shift full-time racing to Pimlico in the northwest quadrant of Baltimore.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024

Brahe’s observatory: the curved scale is a quadrant for measuring elevations that is built into the wall; inside it is a trompe I’oeil section of Brahe’s observatory, with a giant figure of Brahe himself.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton