Mathematics GCSE
Quadrant
What Quadrant means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Quadrant
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One of the four open regions formed by the coordinate axes, numbered anticlockwise from the top-right region.
One of the four regions into which the coordinate axes divide the plane.
Topics that use Quadrant
- Graphs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Area under a graph as an accumulated total
- Asymptote
- Asymptotes
- Asymptotes and domain restrictions
- average rate of change
- Chord
- Circle equation centred at the origin
- Coefficient
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