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'''Quad''' may refer to:
==Architecture==
*[[Quadrangle (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 cities of Iowa cities of Bettendorf and Davenport and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island
==Games==
*Quad Damage, a ''[[Quake (series)|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, an Harkonnen attack vehicle from the computer game [[Dune 2]]
*Quad cannon, an anti-air weapon in [[Command & Conquer: Generals]]
==Music, theatre and film==
*[[Quad (play)|''Quad'' (play)]], by Samuel Beckett
*[[Quad (music)]], a musical project by Gary Ramon
*[[Quad Electroacoustics]], a British manufacturer of electronic amplifiers, tuners and loudspeakers mainly for the high-end domestic market
*[[Quadraphonic]], or four-channel sound
*[[Tenor Drum#Multi Tenor Drums|Quad Toms]], marching percussion instrument
*[[film poster|Quad]], a [[film poster]] in the United Kingdom typically measuring 30 x 40 inches
*[[The Quads]], the British new-wave band
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*''[[John Callahan's Quads!]]'', an animated series from Nelvana
*Quad, a unit of computer storage measurement in the fictional [[Star Trek]] universe
==Science and mathematics==
*[[Quadriceps]], a muscle
*[[Quadruped]], a creature or mechanism which moves on four legs
*[[Quad (energy)]], a unit of energy (short for ''quadrillion'') defined as 10<sup>15</sup> [[British thermal unit]]s (about 1.055 exajoule (EJ) or 1.055 × 10<sup>18</sup> 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
==Society and religion==
*Quad, a derogatory term for a [[Quadriplegia|quadriplegic]]
*[[Quadrangle Club]], one of the ten eating clubs at Princeton University
*[[Quad]], a unique member of a small group of employees from a single organisation sharing a common experience
==Sports==
*Quad, a boat configuration in [[Rowing (sport)|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
*[[All-terrain vehicle]]
==Technology==
*[[Quad-core]]
*[[Quad precision]], a number stored using 16 eight-bit bytes, which is four times the size of 4-byte single precision
*[[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 a cable with four conductors in a square formation used to form two [[balanced line|balanced pairs]]
*[[Star quad]], a cable with four conductors in a 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]], or four-channel sound
*quad, abbreviation for [[Quadrupole ion trap]]
*[[Em (typography)|Em quad]], in typography, a space that is as wide as the height of the font
**[[En (typography)|En quad]], a space that is one half the width of an em quad
*[[QUAD_(cipher)]], a stream cipher
==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 pipe]]s (usually grouped two on each end) of a vehicle
*Quad bikes, [[All-terrain_vehicle#Four_wheelers|four-wheeled all-terrain vehicles]].
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