Quadrants are usually the four parts of a circle that are created by the two coordinate axes - in 2-dimensional space. Octants are their 3-dimensional counterparts: they are the eight shapes created by the three [orthogonal] coordinate planes.
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Eight. That may be a big part of the reason why they're called "OCTants".Or maybe it's just a coincidence.
They are called "quadrants".
There are 4 quadrants in a circle
The Cartesian plane is divided into 4 quadrants
there are 4 quadrants in a coordinate grid (=