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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From quad- + tree, coined by Raphael Finkel and J. L. Bentley in 1974.
Across languages
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