English Dictionary

quaternion

/kwəˈtəːni.ən/

noun

A group or set of four people or things. / A word of four syllables.

The team was formed by a quaternion of skilled individuals.

意味（1）

A group or set of four people or things.

Then wer the dayes of unlevended breed, and when he had caught hym, he put him in preson, and delyvered hym to iiij. quaternions off soudiers to be kept, entendynge after ester to brynge hym forth to the people.

意味（2）

A word of four syllables.

In his general deportment he was pompous and important, affecting a species of florid elocution, which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences.

意味（3）

(mathematics) A four-dimensional hypercomplex number that consists of a real dimension and three imaginary ones (i, j, k) that are each an independent square root of -1. They are commonly used in vector mathematics and in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.

The right-hand side of the quaternion equation requires scalar multiplication and quaternion addition.