One quarter of a circle. When plotting
coordinates on a
graph, the
x- and
y-axes may intersect to create four quadrants. The first quadrant lies in the region where both
x and
y are positive.
The remaining three quadrants are numbered in an anticlockwise direction. Thus in the second quadrant,
x is negative and
y is positive, in the third quadrant, both are negative and in the fourth quadrant
x is positive and
y negative.
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