quadrant

noun6

1. •
   One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.

   • Ops wanted some initiative, blew up their entire quadrant. I'm movin' like Oppenheimer. — 2023
2. •
   One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
3. •
   One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
4. •
   A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
5. •
   One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
6. •
   (no longer used) A square or quadrangle.

   • There is an outcourt or quadrant, whereof one side is a gallery to walk in, being in length six hundred feet. — 1852