Any of the four regions created when a plane is divided by the axes of a Cartesian coordinate system.
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- The quadrants are numbered counterclockwise, starting from the upper right quadrant.
- The Cartesian plane has four quadrants.
- The points on the axes of the Cartesian plane do not belong to any quadrant.