Quad
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Quad may refer to:
An abbreviation for "quadruple" or four in many contexts, as in "quad exhaust pipes"
- Quad indicates four artillery guns in a single mounting
- Quad (more commonly Quads), four of a kind in poker
Architecture
- Quadrangle (architecture), for example on a university campus
- Blue Boar Quadrangle
- David R. Francis Quadrangle, University of Missouri
- Memorial Quadrangle
- Mob Quad, Merton College, Oxford
- Peckwater Quadrangle
- Quadrangle (Harvard), Harvard University
- Quadrangle (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- Radcliffe Quadrangle, University College, Oxford
- Schenley Quadrangle, University of Pittsburgh
- Tom Quad
- University of Alabama Quad
- UCL Main Building, University College London
Brands and commercial attractions
- Quad Electroacoustics, a British manufacturer of electronic amplifiers, tuners and loudspeakers
- Quadrupel is a strong Belgian beer; quad is similarly used elsewhere for strong beers
- The Quad Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip
International trade
- The Quadrilateral group of finance ministers
Music, television, theatre and film
- Quad (play), by Samuel Beckett
- Quad (film), a 2015 film
- Quad (music), a musical project by Gary Ramon
- Quad Cinema, art house in New York City
- Quadraphonic sound, four-channel sound
- Quads, a configuration of four tenor drums
- Quad, a film poster in the United Kingdom typically measuring 30 by 40 inches (76 cm × 102 cm)
- The Quads, a British new-wave band
- John Callahan's Quads!, an animated series from Nelvana
- Derby QUAD, an arts centre in Derby, England
- The Quad, a part of the fictional Hogwarts Castle
- The setting of Killjoys (TV series)
People
- Matthias Quad (1557–1613), engraver and cartographer
- M. Quad, pen name of American humorist Charles Bertrand Lewis (1842–1924)
Places
- Quad Cities, a group of five cities straddling the US Iowa–Illinois boundary
Science and mathematics
- Quadriceps femoris muscle, informally 'quads'
- Quadruplets, or quads, four babies born from one pregnancy
- Quad (unit), unit of energy, short for quadrillion, 1015 BTU
- Quadrilateralized spherical cube or quad sphere, a mapping scheme for data collected on a spherical surface such as a planet
- QUaD, a microwave telescope at the South Pole
- Quad pill, Elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir, an HIV medicine combining four drugs
- Quadrupole in mathematics
- Quadrupole ion trap in mass spectrometry
- Quadrupole mass analyzer in mass spectrometry
- 4-tuple (Quadruple), a list or sequence with four elements
Society and religion
- Quadrangle Club, one of the ten eating clubs at Princeton University
- BU Quad, student publication of Boston University started in 2009
Sports
- Quad scull, a boat configuration of four rowers
- 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, type of surfboard containing 4 fins
- Quad, round-robin tournament with four participants
Technology
- Quad antenna, a directional antenna
- Quad-core, a multi-core processor with 4 cores
- Quad precision, quadruple-precision floating-point format
- Quad Flat Package, a type of package for surface mounted integrated circuit
- Quad, an abbreviation for a type of videotape recorder, especially 2" Quadruplex videotape, with four heads
- Quad, telecommunication term for four conductors used to form two balanced pairs
- Star quad, a type of telecommunications quad
- Quadraphonic sound, or four-channel sound
- Quad (typography), a spacer used in letterpress type, and later the term for a number of sizes of spaces
- QUAD (cipher), a stream cipher
- Quad store, extra metadata to a RDF triple in a named graph
- Quadrilateral, in the context of computer graphics: a polygon with four sides
Vehicles
- Jeffery Quad, a four-wheel drive truck manufactured by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company
- Quad, a muscle car with a four-barrel carburetor
- Quad, a tandem bicycle with four seats
- Quad bikes, four-wheeled all-terrain vehicles
- Quad, or speeder, a motorized vehicle used for maintenance of ways on railroads
- Quad, the nickname of the Morris C8 artillery gun tractor
- Quad (rocket), an autonomous rocket by Armadillo Aerospace
- Quadruple combination fire apparatus that features a pump, tank, hose, and a full complement of ground ladders
- An abbreviation for quadracycle, a human powered vehicle with four wheels
- Quadcopter, a four-rotor helicopter
See also
- All pages with titles containing Quad
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