Quad 396913 225879863 2008-07-15T20:52:54Z 85.5.180.29 /* Vehicles */ {{wiktionarypar|quad|quadri-}}{{TOCright}} '''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 ************ *''[[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 &times; 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]]. {{disambig}} [[fr:Quad (homonymie)]] [[it:Quad]] [[nl:Quad]]