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Quadra
A family of Macintosh computers that was popular in the early 1990s. See Macintosh.

Quadra 900
By this time, the hardware was fast enough to truly accommodate the sophisticated graphics-based software introduced years before. (Image courtesy of Apple Inc.)

quadra
1. A square frame or border enclosing a bas-relief.
2. The plinth of a podium.
3. Any small molding of plain or square section, as one of the fillets above or below the scotia of an Ionic base.


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This is partly owing to their own negligence in not clearing the woods, and partly to restrictions by the government, which makes it necessary, before buying ever so small a piece, to pay two shillings to the surveyor for measuring each quadra (150 yards square), together with whatever price he fixes for the value of the land.
 
 
 
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