A quarter is: * One of four equal parts of a single thing (sometimes referred to as a fourth in US English). * A 1/4 (¼) part of many other things, including the year or the cycle of the moon. * A neighborhood of a city (e.g. the French Quarter of New Orleans or the Latin Quarter of Paris). * An academic period like a semester, but shorter (approximately 10 weeks instead of 15). * The name for coins which are worth one-fourth (1/4) of a dollar. Such coins exist in the United States and Canada. See quarter (U.S. coin) and quarter (Canadian coin). * The name for several units of measurement, each of which is one-fourth of some larger unit. In the Imperial units, a quarter is two stone (weight) (28 pounds), or one-quarter of a hundredweight. * Requesting a pardon, ''specifically'' not killing a defeated opponent. * in heraldry, unless specified as a ''quarter sinister'' or ''sinister quarter,'' an ordinary occupying the dexter chief (viewer's upper left) quarter of the "field" of a shield, or, if the field is "quarterly" (divided into four by cross-like lines), one of the quarters thus formed * as a verb, to quarter means to divide in to quarters, such as when slaughtering an animal for food To print a one-quarter ¼ symbol in HTML, ¼ can be used. Likewise, a three-quarters ¾ symbol is ¾.
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Quarter
A quarter is: * One of four equal parts of a single thing (sometimes referred to as a fourth in US English). * A 1/4 (¼) part of many other things, including the year or the cycle of the moon. * A neighborhood of a city (e.g. the French Quarter of New Orleans or the Latin Quarter of Paris). * An academic period like a semester, but shorter (approximately 10 weeks instead of 15). * The name for coins which are worth one-fourth (1/4) of a dollar. Such coins exist in the United States and Canada. See quarter (U.S. coin) and quarter (Canadian coin). * The name for several units of measurement, each of which is one-fourth of some larger unit. In the Imperial units, a quarter is two stone (weight) (28 pounds), or one-quarter of a hundredweight. * Requesting a pardon, ''specifically'' not killing a defeated opponent. * in heraldry, unless specified as a ''quarter sinister'' or ''sinister quarter,'' an ordinary occupying the dexter chief (viewer's upper left) quarter of the "field" of a shield, or, if the field is "quarterly" (divided into four by cross-like lines), one of the quarters thus formed * as a verb, to quarter means to divide in to quarters, such as when slaughtering an animal for food To print a one-quarter ¼ symbol in HTML, ¼ can be used. Likewise, a three-quarters ¾ symbol is ¾.
See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z |
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