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'''Quad''' may refer to: |
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==Architecture== |
==Architecture== |
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*[[Quadrangle (architecture)|Quadrangle]] in architecture, e.g., on a university campus |
*[[Quadrangle (architecture)|Quadrangle]] in architecture, e.g., on a university campus |
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*Quad, a [[dormitory]] room or suite housing four residents |
*Quad, a [[dormitory]] room or suite housing four residents |
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*[[Quad Cities]], a region which includes the Iowa cities of Bettendorf and Davenport and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island |
*[[Quad Cities]], a region which includes the Iowa cities of Bettendorf and Davenport and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island |
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A QUAD IS JUST TOP LOLZ |
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==Armaments== |
==Armaments== |
Revision as of 09:30, 8 December 2011
Architecture
- Quadrangle in architecture, e.g., on a university campus
- Quad, a dormitory room or suite housing four residents
- Quad Cities, a region which includes the Iowa cities of Bettendorf and Davenport and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island
A QUAD IS JUST TOP LOLZ
Armaments
Beer
- Quadrupel is a Belgian style ale of great strength with bolder flavor compared to its Dubbel and Tripel sister styles.
Games
- Quad Damage, a Quake and Unreal Tournament power-up
- Quad, a type of combined robotic enemy in the Nintendo Gamecube game Metroid Prime 2
- Quad (more commonly Quads), four of a kind in poker
- Quad, a Harkonnen attack vehicle from the computer game Dune 2
- Quad cannon, an anti-air weapon in Command & Conquer: Generals
International Trade
- The Quadrilateral group of finance ministers
Music, theatre and film
- Quad (play), by Samuel Beckett
- Quad (music), a musical project by Gary Ramon
- Quad (cinema), art house in New York City
- Quad Electroacoustics, a British manufacturer of electronic amplifiers, tuners and loudspeakers mainly for the high-end domestic market
- Quadraphonic, or four-channel sound
- Quadrophenia, a 1973 album by The Who
- Quad Toms, marching percussion instrument
- Quad, a film poster in the United Kingdom typically measuring 30 x 40 inches
- The Quads, the British new-wave band
- QuadCarbon, fictional corporation in movie Proof of Life
- John Callahan's Quads!, an animated series from Nelvana
- Quad, a unit of computer storage measurement in the fictional Star Trek universe
- Derby QUAD, an arts centre in Derby, England
- The Quad, a part of Hogwarts Castle (made only for films and games).
Places
Science and mathematics
- Quadriceps, a group of muscles
- Quadruped, a creature or mechanism which moves on four legs
- Quad (energy), a unit of energy (short for quadrillion) defined as 1015 British thermal units (about 1.055 exajoule (EJ) or 1.055 × 1018 J)
- Quadrilateral, a four sided figure in plane geometry
- Quadratic, the second power in mathematics
- Quadrangle (geography), a 7.5-minute topographic map produced by the United States Geological Survey, covering in greater detail one quarter of the area of a 15-minute map
- Quadrilateralized Spherical Cube, a mapping scheme for data collected on a spherical surface, such as a planet
- QUaD, a telescope located at the South Pole that is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background radiation polarization
- Quadratic Formula, the equation used to solve quadratic equations
Society and religion
- Quad, a derogatory term for a quadriplegic
- Quadrangle Club, one of the ten eating clubs at Princeton University
- BU Quad, student publication of Boston University started in 2009
Sports
- Quad, a boat configuration in rowing that contains 4 people, with 2 oars each, and no coxswain
- Quad, a chairlift in skiing which carries four persons
- Quad (figure skating), a figure skating jump with four revolutions
- Quad skates, roller skates with two wheels on each of two axles
- Quad, A type of surfboard containing 4 fins
- Quad, (Wrestling) A Dual Meet consisting of 4 teams. Also called a Quadangular.
- Quad, an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) with four wheels.
Technology
- Quad antenna, a directional antenna
- Quad-core, a multi-core processor with 4 cores
- Quadtree, a tree data structure typically used to partition a 2-dimensional space
- Quad precision, a number stored using 16 eight-bit bytes, which is four times the size of 4-byte single precision
- Quad Flat Package, a type of package for surface mounted integrated circuit
- Quad Electroacoustics, a British manufacturer of electronic amplifiers, tuners and loudspeakers mainly for the high-end domestic market
- Quad, an abbreviation for a type of videotape recorder, especially 2" Quadruplex videotape, where there are four record heads on a spinning drum which move perpendicular to the direction of tape travel
- Quad, telecommunication term referring to four conductors formation used to form two balanced pairs
- Star quad, four conductors in square formation, in which opposite conductors are connected in parallel at both ends to form a single, magnetically-concentric balanced pair, in order to minimise magnetic induction
- Quadraphonic sound, or four-channel sound
- quad, abbreviation for Quadrupole ion trap
- Em quad, in typography, a space that is as wide as the height of the font
- En quad, a space that is one half the width of an em quad
- QUAD (cipher), a stream cipher
- Quadruple precision floating-point format, a data type in computer programming.
Vehicles
- Quadriga
- Quadruple combination fire apparatus that features a pump, tank, hose and a full complement of ground ladders
- Quad, a tandem bicycle with four seats
- Quad, a muscle car with a four-barrel carburetor
- Quad, the nickname of the Morris C8 artillery gun tractor
- Quad (rocket), an autonomous rocket by Armadillo Aerospace
- Quads refer to four exhaust pipes (usually grouped two on each end) of a vehicle
- Quad bikes, four-wheeled all-terrain vehicles.
- other term for a speeder, a motorized vehicle used for maintenance of ways on railroads