Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quadtree

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English

Syllables
quadtree
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A treelike data structure each of whose nodes has up to four children, most often used to partition a two-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From quad- + tree, coined by Raphael Finkel and J. L. Bentley in 1974.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

quadtrees (plural)

Phrases

binary tree

Frequently Paired Words

binary tree octree

Questions

What does quadtree mean?
A treelike data structure each of whose nodes has up to four children, most often used to partition a two-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it.
Where does quadtree come from?
From quad- + tree, coined by Raphael Finkel and J. L. Bentley in 1974.

How to pronounce quadtree

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