Alberta is located in the northwestern quadrant of North America, in a region of low population density called the Interior Plains ( and referred to by one author as North America's " Empty Quarter ").

This simulation is repeated until it produces a quadrant elevation and azimuth that lands the shell within the required ' closing ' distance of the target co-ordinates.

The n-dimensional generalization of the quadrant and octant is the orthant.

and the length of the meridian quadrant from the equator to the pole is

* Grade 3a ( severe edema ): Lymphedema is present in one limb and its associated trunk quadrant.

The other approach suggested defining the metre as one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant ; that is, the distance from the equator to the North Pole.

* 1791 March 30The French National Assembly accepts the proposal by the French Academy of Sciences that the new definition for the metre be equal to one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant through Paris, that is the distance from the equator to the north pole.

The former Schwerin standard with the white quadrant is now ascribed to the grand dukes of Strelitz.

New Caledonia is the slender island in the top left quadrant of the image at 11 o ' clock from New Zealand.

Cardassia's educational system is legendary throughout the quadrant.

An octant is a similar device with a shorter scale ( turn, or 45 °), whereas a quintant ( turn, or 72 °) and a quadrant ( turn, or 90 °) have longer scales.

Tora Bora is in the upper right quadrant.

The abdomen is distended and painful in the right lower quadrant where borborygmi can be heard.

* January 19 – Captain Charles Wilkes ' United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Land in the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claiming it for the United States and providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent.

Each quadrant is graduated from 0 ° to 90 °.

In humans, it is located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.

# Defined only in the non-negative quadrant of commodity quantities ( i. e. the possibility of having negative quantities of any good is ignored ).

* Demagnetisation progressively occurs if the magnet is subjected to cyclic fields sufficient to move the magnet away from the linear part on the second quadrant of the B-H curve of the magnetic material ( the demagnetisation curve ).

In December 1821, Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer looking for seal breeding grounds, sighted what is now known as the Antarctic Peninsula, located in the continent's northwestern quadrant.

The model is presented as a graph of two intersecting lines in the first quadrant.

The distal left main coronary artery ( LMCA ) is in the left upper quadrant of the image.

This county lies in the northeastern quadrant of the state, which is sometimes known as the mineral region of Alabama.

The main campus is located in the north-west quadrant of Calgary, near the Bow River, and covers more than 200 hectares ( 500 acres ).

Downtown Los Gatos, the area on and around Santa Cruz Avenue and Main Street, is located in the southwest quadrant of town.

Newport News, Hampton, Virginia | Hampton, Portsmouth, Virginia | Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia | Norfolk, Virginia from space, July 1996 ( Newport News is seen in the upper left quadrant )

All these calculations to produce a quadrant elevation ( or range ) and azimuth were done manually by highly trained soldiers using instruments, tabulated data, data of the moment and approximations until battlefield computers started appearing in the 1960s and 1970s.

Latitude was calculated by observing with quadrant or astrolabe the inclination of the sun or of charted stars, but longitude presented no such manifest means of study.

A bodyline delivery was one where the cricket ball was pitched short so as to rise towards the body of the batsman on the line of the leg stump, in the hope of creating leg-side deflections that could be caught by one of several fielders in the quadrant of the field behind square leg.

A more sensitive form of quadrant electrometer was developed by Frederick Lindemann.

Quest was also ranked in the leaders ' quadrant by Gartner for application performance monitoring.

Maskelyne also introduced several practical improvements, such as the measurement of time to tenths of a second ; and prevailed upon the government to replace Bird ’ s mural quadrant by a repeating circle 6 feet ( 1. 8 m ) in diameter.

The world was represented as a land disc surrounded by the Ocean and divided in three parts: Asia ( upper semicircle ), Europe ( lower left quadrant ) and Africa ( lower right quadrant ).

First is the problem of " finding a point on a quadrant of a circle such that when a normal is dropped from the point to one of the bounding radii, the ratio of the normal's length to that of the radius equals the ratio of the segments determined by the foot of the normal.

The city centre is the oldest part of town and lies south of the palace in the quadrant defined by nine of the radial streets.

Established in 1916 and preserved by the Women's Club, Railroad Park is located in the northwest quadrant of the old train station square.

The northeast quadrant is covered by 52402 and 52411.

The southeast quadrant is covered by 52403.

The southwest quadrant is covered by 52404.

The northwest quadrant is covered by 52405.

Guy Trueman built one of his many subdivisions in the mid-1940s by platting Trueman Heights on over in the northwest quadrant of the Camp Springs crossroads.

It is located in the northwest quadrant of the county, bordered by Conway Township to the west, Deerfield Township to the east, and Howell Township to the south.

The first settlement in Nevada Township was by William Allen, a Massachusetts man, in the southwest quadrant of section 29, an area later called Six Mile Grove.

Hillsborough is home to Duke Gardens and Duke Farms, a estate in the north-eastern quadrant of the town that was originally owned by tobacco and electric energy tycoon James " Buck " Duke and then passed down to daughter Doris Duke, and is now one of the few remaining " preserved " natural areas in Hillsborough Township.

On February 20, 1808 the Worthington Academy was incorporated by the Ohio legislature and a brick building was constructed facing the northeast quadrant of the public square.

A major Easter grass factory is located in the northern quadrant of the borough limits ; until May 2007, the facility was owned by Bleyer Industries.

In modern form, the identities he derived are stated as follows ( with signs determined by the quadrant in which x lies ):

It could also be argued that Niccolò Tartaglia's invention of the gunner's quadrant ( see clinometer ) in the 16th Century introduced indirect fire guns because it enabled gunlaying by instrument instead of line of sight.