Quadball

Quick meaning: Quadball is a noun meaning (computer graphics, countable) A rounded cube used to approximate a sphere.

Meaning

(computer graphics, countable) A rounded cube used to approximate a sphere.

More Meanings

1. (sports, uncountable, neologism) A co-ed contact ball sport created as a ground-based adaptation of Quidditch, featuring the same positions, balls, and goals as the fictional sport, but with the players clutching broomsticks and a human "snitch runner" carrying the snitch (an autonomous magical device in the Harry Potter novels).

Example Sentences

Major League Quidditch and US Quidditch will now be known as Major League Quadball and US Quadball respectively.

When elongating a quadball, is it possible to predetermine the new length? I want to make two squished quadballs, one 2 mm smaller than the other along the long axis.

Love Harry Potter? Then check out the quadball championship that combines elements of rugby, basketball and dodgeball. The MLQ Championship is the league’s signature event

Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “Quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday.

Word Forms

• quadballs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quad, quadricone, cube, ball, boxel, hypocube.

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