orthant
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thumb|In two dimensions, there are four orthants (called quadrants)
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thumb|In two dimensions, there are four orthants (called quadrants)
In geometry, an orthant or hyperoctant is the analogue in n-dimensional Euclidean space of a quadrant in the plane or an octant in three dimensions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “orthant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.