Quarter

A quarter is one-fourth, , 25%, or 0.25. Quarter or quarters may refer to:

A quarter is one-fourth, , 25%, or 0.25. 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, an archaic British monetary unit Quarter dollar, 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 and no quarter

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 or fiscal year (q.v.)

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) Lunar phase - Shape of the Moon's sunlit portion as viewed from Earth, sometimes called the quarters.

See also

1/4 (disambiguation) Fourth (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 in statistics Shoe (The back and rearward sides of a shoe are called quarters)

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