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Definition quarter

Etymology 1

Via French quartier, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (�room, quarters; quarter�).

Adjective

quarter (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
2. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
3. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.

Noun

quarter (countable and uncountable, plural quarters)

1. Any fourth of something, particularly:
   1. A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
   2. (now chiefly financial) A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season.
   3. (historical) The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for measures of wine, ale, and grain
   4. (historical) The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade
   5. (historical) The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year.
   6. (heraldry) A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
   7. (basketball) A period into which a game is divided. (usually 8, 10 or 12 minutes according to the rules).
   8. quarterfinal
2. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly:
   1. A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole.
   2. (usually in the plural) A living place, from which:
      1. (military slang, now rare) A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.
      2. (uncountable, obsolete except in phrase no quarter) Amity, friendship, concord; (now) accommodation given to a defeated opponent, mercy.
   3. The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
   4. (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.

Verb

quarter (third-person singular simple present quarters, present participle quartering, simple past and past participle quartered)

1. (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
2. (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
3. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
4. (transitive) To quartersaw.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French cartayer.

Verb

quarter (third-person singular simple present quarters, present participle quartering, simple past and past participle quartered)

1. (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

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