Quadrat vs X - What's the difference?
quadrat | x |
(sciences) An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc. While originally rectangular, modern quadrats can be rectangular, circular, irregular, etc. (e.g.: Krebs, C.J., 1999. Ecological Methodology. Addison-Welsey Educational Publishing, Inc., Menlo Park, California; Wheater, C.P., Bell, J.R., Cook, P.A., 2011. Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, England.)
(metal type, obsolete) A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
* 1683 , Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing. , v 2,
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun quadrat
is square.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.quadrat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
1683. Probably from (etyl) cadrat or (etyl) . So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.Noun
(en noun)p 222–23:
- If his Title'' be ?hort, he ''Sets'' it in the middle of the ''Line'', by ''Setting Quadrats''''' on both ?ides: If his ''Title'' be long, he ''Sets'' the middle ''Line'' in the middle: If it make three or more ''Lines'', he ''Indents'' the fir?t with an m '''''Quadrat''''', and the other with two m '''''Quadrats .