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quad bike, quad a vehicle like a motorcycle with four large wheels, designed for agricultural, sporting, and other off-road uses quad [kwäd] (electricity) A series of four separately insulated conductors, generally twisted together in pairs. (electronics) A series-parallel combination of transistors; used to obtain increased reliability through double redundancy, because the failure of one transistor will not disable the entire circuit. (graphic arts) One of the small pieces of metal used in typesetting to space or to fill out a line of characters; used mostly to fill space when indenting the first line and to fill out the last line of type. (thermodynamics) A unit of heat energy, equal to 1015British thermal units, or approximately 1.055 × 1018joules.
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But the quad and the fives-courts did not look a day older; the ivy was no thicker round the study windows; and in one boy's castle we found the traditional print of Charing Cross Bridge which had knocked about our studies ever since a son of the contractor first sold it when he left. |
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