Quarter

Adjective
(also spelled with prefix quarter-:)


 * 1) Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
 * 2)  Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
 * 3) * A quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound.
 * 4)  Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
 * 5) * A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.
 * 6) * A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.

Derived terms

 * quarter blanket
 * quarter bottle
 * quarter century
 * quarter crack
 * quarter day
 * quarter final
 * quarter horse


 * quarter hour
 * quarter moon
 * quarter note
 * quarter pound
 * quarter session
 * quarter waiter
 * quarter year

Noun

 * 1) Any one of four equal parts into which something has been divided.
 * 2) (United States and Canada) A coin worth 25 cents.
 * 3) A period of three consecutive months.
 * 4) A section or area (of a town, etc.).
 * 5)  Accommodation granted to a defeated opponent
 * 6) * "Sir, they have asked for quarter." "Have they? Well, we will give no quarter."
 * 7) An old English measure of corn, containing 8 bushels.
 * 8) * 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, p. 204.
 * One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.
 * 1) An old English measure of cloth, nine inches or four nails
 * 2)  Each of the four divisions or watches of a twelve-hour night.
 * 3) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark VI:
 * And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].

Synonyms

 * (one of four equal parts): fourth, fourth part, ¼
 * (period of three consecutive months): trimester
 * (section of a town): borough, district, region

Derived terms

 * quarterly
 * quarters
 * quarter of


 * quarter past
 * quarter to

Related terms

 * quart

Verb

 * 1)  To divide into quarters.
 * 2)  To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
 * Quarter the horses in the third stable.

Thesaurus
C, C-note, G, G-note, abode, abundant year, academic year, accommodate, accommodations, achievement, adjunct, aim, airspace, alerion, anchor, animal charge, annulet, annum, area, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azimuth, azure, bandeau, bank, bar, bar sinister, barracks, barrio, baton, beam, bearing, bearings, bed, belt, bend, bend sinister, benevolence, bent, berth, billet, billet at, bissextile year, bivouac, blazon, blazonry, board, border, bordure, broad arrow, broadside, buck, bunk, burrow, cadency mark, calendar month, calendar year, camp, canton, cantonment, cartwheel, casern, cent, century, chambers, chaplet, charge, cheek, chevron, chief, chop, clemency, coast, coat of arms, cockatrice, colonize, come to anchor, commiseration, common year, compassion, component, condolence, confines, continental shelf, contingent, copper, coronet, corridor, country, course, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, cross section, crown, current, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, department, detachment, detail, device, difference, differencing, dime, direction, direction line, district, division, dole, dollar, dollar bill, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, drift, drop anchor, dwelling, eagle, ensconce, entertain, environs, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, establish residence, falcon, farthing, favor, feeling, fess, fess point, field, fifty cents, file, fin, fiscal year, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, flanch, flank, fleur-de-lis, forbearance, forgiveness, fortnight, four bits, fourth, fourth part, fraction, fret, frogskin, fur, fusil, garland, grace, grand, griffin, ground, gules, gyron, habitation, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hand, handedness, harbor, hatchment, haunch, heading, heartland, helmet, helmsmanship, heraldic device, hinterland, hip, hive, home, honor point, hour, house, humanity, hundred-dollar bill, hut, impalement, impaling, inclination, inescutcheon, inhabit, installment, iron man, item, jowl, keep house, kindness, label, land, laterality, lay, leap year, leniency, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, lion, live at, living quarters, locale, locality, locate, location, lodge, lodgings, lozenge, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, mantling, many-sidedness, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mercifulness, mercy, metal, microsecond, milieu, mill, millennium, millisecond, minute, mitigation, moment, month, moon, moor, motto, move, mullet, multilaterality, navigation, neighborhood, nest, nickel, nombril point, octofoil, offshore rights, one-fourth, or, ordinary, orientation, orle, pale, paly, parcel, pardon, park, part, particular, parts, pathos, pean, penny, people, percentage, perch, pheon, piloting, pity, place, planking, point, portion, post, precinct, precincts, premises, profile, purlieus, purpure, put up, quadrant, quadrature, quadrisect, quart, quartering, quartern, quarters, quarto, quinquennium, quota, random sample, range, red cent, region, regular year, relief, relocate, remainder, reprieve, reside, residence, room, rooms, roost, rose, run, ruth, sable, salient, saltire, sample, sampling, sawbuck, scutcheon, second, section, sector, segment, self-pity, semester, session, set, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, share, shelter, shield, shore, side, sidereal year, siding, silver dollar, sit down, skin, smacker, soil, solar year, space, spot, spread eagle, squat, stable, stand, station, stay at, steerage, steering, strike root, subdivision, subgroup, subordinary, subspecies, sun, sympathy, take residence at, take root, take up residence, temple, ten cents, ten-spot, tendency, tenne, tenner, tenor, term, terrain, territory, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, three-mile limit, tincture, torse, track, trend, tressure, trimester, twelve-mile limit, twelvemonth, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, twenty-five percent, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, unicorn, unilaterality, vair, vert, vicinage, vicinity, way, week, weekday, wreath, yale, yard, year, zone

Etymology
Via from  quartus:

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: քառորդ
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese: 四分之一 (sì fēn zhīyī)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: neljandik
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:, τεταρτημόριο
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: seperempat
 * Interlingua: quarto, quarte parte
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 四分の一 (よんぶんのいち, yombun-no-ichi), 四半 (shihan), 四半分 (shihanbun)
 * Korean: 사분의 일 (sabunui il)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Malayalam: കാല്‍ (kaal)
 * Manx: kerroo
 * Persian: (charak)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: quarto, quarta parte
 * Romanian:, pătrime, (old): pătrar
 * Russian: четверть
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tamil: கால் (kaal)
 * Telugu: పావు భాగం (paavu bhaagaM), నాలుగో వంతు (naalugO vaMtu)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: foldil


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French: pièce de vingt-cinq cents
 * German:
 * Italian: moneta di venticinque centesimi
 * Kurdish:


 * Persian: (bistopanj senti)
 * Polish:
 * Russian: четвертак
 * Spanish: cora, cuarto
 * Telugu: పావలా (paavalaa) (Quarter of Indian Rupee)
 * Yiddish: קוואָדער


 * Armenian: քառորդ
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: τριμηνία, τρίμηνο
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: trimestre
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ４半期 / 四半期 (しはんき, shihanki)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Persian: (fasl)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: త్రైమాసికం (traimaasikaM)


 * Armenian: թաղամաս
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * French:
 * German:, , Kwartier (Cologne)
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Ladino:
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Persian: (mahalle)
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Tamil: பேட்டை (paeTTai), பகுதி (pakguti)
 * Turkish:, ,

Verb

 * Czech: ,


 * Greek: τεταρτιάζω, διαιρώ


 * Greek: φιλοξενώ

Noun

 * 1) fourth

Etymology
From quartus:

Noun

 * 1)  old measure of corn

Etymology
From

Anagrams

 * traquer