Quarter

A quarter is one-fourth, 1⁄4, 25% or 0.25.

Look up quarter, one fourth, one quarter, quarters, or quartier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Quarter or quarters may refer to:

Places

• Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town

Placenames

• Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a settlement in Scotland
• Le Quartier, a settlement in France
• The Quarter, Anguilla
• Quartier, Sud, Haiti

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Quarters (children's game) or bloody knuckles, a schoolyard game involving quarters or other coins
• Quarters (game), a drinking game
• Quarters!, a 2015 album by the psychedelic rock group King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
• Quarter note, in music one quarter of a whole note
• "Quarters" (Wilco song)
• "Quarter" (song)

Coins

• Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
• Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
  • Washington quarter, the current design of this coin
• Quarter farthing, a British monetary unit
• Quarter dollar, 1⁄4 unit of currencies that are named dollar
• Quarter guinea, a British coin

Military

• General quarters, a naval status requiring all hands to go to battle stations
• Barracks or quarters, buildings built to house military personnel or laborers
• Quarter, a promise or guarantee of mercy to a vanquished enemy; see Safe conduct

Time

• 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
• Quarter days, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due
• Quarter (calendar year), one of four divisions of a calendar year
• One of four divisions (each three months) of a fiscal year

Other uses

• Quarter (unit), various obsolete customary units of measurement
• Quarters of nobility or quarterings, the number of generations in which noble status has been held by a family
• Hanged, drawn and quartered, formerly a punishment for treason in England
• Quarter (heraldry)
• William Quarter (1806–1848)
• The back and rearward sides of a shoe

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Quarter
• All pages with titles containing quarter
• 1/4 (disambiguation)
• No quarter (disambiguation)
• The Quarters (disambiguation)
• QTR (disambiguation)
• Quart (disambiguation)
• Quarterdeck (disambiguation)
• Quartering (disambiguation)
• Quartet (disambiguation)
• Quarterly, a magazine published four times a year
• Quartiere, a subdivision of certain Italian towns
• Quartier (unit), an obsolete French unit of measurement
• Quartile, a term from statistics, meaning "fourth"
• Fourth (disambiguation)

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