DICTIONARY OF AUTOMOTIVE TERMS - "Quo"

Quoin

1. An exterior angle of a building, esp. one formed of large squared cornerstones projecting beyond the general faces of the meeting wall surfaces.
2. A wooden wedge or a metal device used to lock up forms.

Quoin header

A brick laid at the external angle of a building to be a header in the wall proper and a stretcher in the return wall.

Quotations

Metal spaces of varying widths, 1, 2, 3, or 4 em used for filling blanks in pages or forms.

Quotient group

The group G/N whose elements are the cosets of N in G, where N is a normal subgroup of G. The product of two cosets is defined to be equal to the coset which contains the product of an element of the first coset and an element of the second.