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Quadrant

nounverified·updated Oct 6, 2026

Short name referring to technology that provides tamper-resistant protection to cryptographic equipment.

polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

Wordset Dictionary

a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies

Wordset Dictionary

the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle

Wordset Dictionary

any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes

Wordset Dictionary

a quarter of the circumference of a circle

Classifications

Entity Type

Facility100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split
Ddorianclast reviewed —
Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)

Sensitivity

—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

—65%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Quadrants
possessive
Quadrant's
pluralpossessive
Quadrants'