Contents 1 Architecture 2 Games 3 Music, theatre and film 4 Science and mathematics 5 Society and religion 6 Sports 7 Technology 8 Vehicles

Quad may refer to:

Architecture

• Quadrangle in architecture, e. In Architecture, a quadrangle is a space or courtyard usually square or rectangular in plan the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building 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 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), 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

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. Dormitory typically refers in the United States to residence halls which are sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for The Quad Cities is geographic region of the Mid-Mississippi Valley of the United States that includes multiple communities in the states of Iowa and Illinois The Quake series is a line of First person shooter Computer and video games produced by Id Software. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes is a first person action-adventure Video game developed by Retro Studios and published Poker is a type of Card game in which players bet on the value of the card combination (" hand " in their possession by placing a bet into Dune II The Building of a Dynasty (retitled Dune II Battle for Arrakis in Europe and for the Mega Drive/Genesis port is a ''Dune'' computer Command & Conquer Generals is a Real-time strategy game in the Command & Conquer series. For other uses of the term see Quad. Samuel Beckett ’s Quad was written in 1981 and first Quad or QUAD was the name of a solo music project by Gary Ramon. Quad Electroacoustics is a British manufacturer of Hi-fi equipment based in Huntingdon, England. Quadraphonic (or quadrophonic) sound &ndash the most-widely-used early term for what is now called 4 A tenor drum is a cylindrical drum which is higher pitched than a Bass drum. A film poster is a Poster used to advertise a Film. There may be several versions for one film A film poster is a Poster used to advertise a Film. There may be several versions for one film This is about the band For other uses see Quad. The Quads were a new wave band from Birmingham England, active in the John Callahan's Quads! is a Canada - Australia co-production cartoon based upon work of John Callahan. "Quads" redirects here For other uses see Quad The quadriceps femoris ( Latin for "four-headed of the femur" also Quadrupedalism (from Latin meaning "four legs" is a form of land animal locomotion using four legs. A quad is a unit of energy equal to 1015 (a short-scale Quadrillion) BTU, or 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. In Geometry, a quadrilateral is a Polygon with four sides or edges and four vertices or corners. In mathematics the term quadratic describes something that pertains to squares, to the operation of Squaring, to terms of the second degree, or equations In geology or geography the word " quadrangle " usually refers to a United States Geological Survey (USGS 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

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

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

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

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

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