Quad - Technology

Technology

  • Quad antenna, a directional antenna
  • Quad-core, a multi-core processor with 4 cores
  • Quadtree, a tree data structure typically used to partition a 2-dimensional space
  • Quad precision, a number stored using 16 eight-bit bytes, which is four times the size of 4-byte single precision
  • Quad Flat Package, a type of package for surface mounted integrated circuit
  • 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 four conductors formation used to form two balanced pairs
    • Star quad, four conductors in 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 sound, 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
  • Quadruple precision floating-point format, a data type in computer programming.
  • Quad store, extra metadata to a RDF triple.

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