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.