Quarter
Appearance
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A quarter is one-fourth, ¼, 25% or 0.25 and may refer to:
Zeit
- Academic quarter (class timing), term used by universities in various European countries for the 15 minutes between the defined start time for a lecture and the actual time it will start
- Academic quarter (year division), a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks
- Fiscal quarter, one-fourth (three months) of a fiscal year
- Quarter days, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due
- Quarter note, in music one quarter of a whole note
- Quarter of a calendar year, one of four divisions of the calendar year
- Quarter on quarter, an accounting term
- Quarterly, a magazine that comes out four times a year
Place
- Armenian Quarter, a district of Jerusalem
- French Quarter, a district of New Orleans
- Jewellery Quarter, an area of Birmingham, England
- Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
- Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a small settlement in Scotland
- Quartier, an administrative Paris subdivision, or a historical quarter like Paris' Latin quarter.
- Quartiere, a subdivision of certain Italian towns
- The Quarter at Tropicana, an entertainment and retail attraction in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Gun Quarter, a district of the city of Birmingham, England
- Moroccan Quarter, a district of Jerusalem
- German Quarter, a district of Moscow
- Muslim Quarter, a district of Jerusalem
Coins
- Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
- Quarter farthing, a British monetary unit
- Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
- Washington quarter, the current design of this coin
Units
- Quarter acre, a term for a suburban plot of land
- Quarter section, an area of one-fourth of a square mile, or 160 acres (0.65 km2)
- Quarter (unit), various obsolete customary units of measurement
- Quartile, a term from statistics
- Quartier (unit), an obsolete French units of measurement
Military
- Close quarters battle, a confrontation of small units engaging the enemy with personal weapons at very short range
- General quarters, a naval status requiring all hands to go to battle stations
- Headquarters, the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated
- Military quarters, also known as barracks
Other uses
- "Quarters", also known as bloody knuckles, a schoolyard game involving quarters or other coins
- Quarters (game), drinking game
- Quarters!, a 2015 album by the psychedelic rock group King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
- Quarters of nobility, proof that all four grandparents were aristocrats
- To be at quarter with; to be at peace with
- Quarter sawing, a type of cut made in lumbering operations
- Quarter Pounder, a food product of McDonald's
- Quarter round, a shape applied to molding
- Quarter glass, a side window in the front door or located on each side of the car just forward of the rear window
- Quarter panel, the body panel of an automobile between a rear door and the trunk
- Quarterdeck, a raised deck behind the main mast of a sailing ship
- American quarter horse, a horse breed