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What is the meaning of the bold word as it is used in the sentence?

“The guards took her to the roof,” Burrow replied. “The stairs are in the southeast quadrant of this level. Most team members went southeast to look for the lady, but a few spanned out across the other three sections just in case.”
A floor in a multi-story building
A section in a library
One section of an area divided into fourths
A tool used to measure angles

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
One section of an area divided into fourths.

Here "quadrant" means a quarter of the level (the southeast quarter), not a floor, library section, or the measuring instrument.