Quad
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Quad may refer to:
[edit] 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
[edit] 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, an Harkonnen attack vehicle from the computer game Dune 2
- Quad cannon, an anti-air weapon in Command & Conquer: Generals
[edit] Music, theatre and film
- 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
- 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
- John Callahan's Quads!, an animated series from Nelvana
- Quad, a unit of computer storage measurement in the fictional Star Trek universe
[edit] 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 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
- QUaD, a telescope located at the South Pole that is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background radiation polarization
[edit] Society and religion
- Quad, a derogatory term for a 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
[edit] 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
- All-terrain vehicle
[edit] 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 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 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
[edit] 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