Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word QUARTER

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Definitions of QUARTER

1. A fourth part of something.
2. Place or position.
3. Short forms.
4. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
5. (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
6. (obsolete) Relations between people. [17th c.]
7. Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed. [from 17th c.]
8. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (, 25%).
9. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
10. (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
11. (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
12. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
13. (transitive) To quartersaw.
14. (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.
15. A village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7251).
16. (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.

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Examples of Using QUARTER in a Sentence

• Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing.
• With its urban area's population numbering over three and a quarter million, it is the eighth largest urban area in the European Union.
• The language also spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and settlement and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, included 470–570 million people, about a quarter of the world's population.
• The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances.
• The city was founded originally in the vicinity of an Egyptian settlement named Rhacotis (that became the Egyptian quarter of the city).
• Bulgaria is a country situated in Southeast Europe that occupies the eastern quarter of the Balkan peninsula, being the largest country within its geographic boundaries.
• The economy of Cameroon was one of the most prosperous in Africa for a quarter of a century after independence.
• The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
• It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the Sacred Way, a road from Athens to Eleusis.
• The intended schedule for updates was for postings twice a week, but new comics are typically posted just once or twice a quarter on non-specific days.
• In common usage, the four major phases are the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon and the last quarter; the four minor phases are waxing crescent, waxing gibbous, waning gibbous, and waning crescent.
• Oman is located in the southeastern quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and covers a total land area of.
• Plutinos form the inner part of the Kuiper belt and represent about a quarter of the known Kuiper belt objects.
• Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over , but home to roughly a quarter of Russia's population.
• Transport consumes a quarter of energy in Turkey, and is a major source of air pollution in Turkey and greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey.
• 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth note (quaver), 16 to the sixteenth note (semiquaver).
• The quarter, formally known as the quarter dollar, is a coin in the United States valued at 25 cents, representing one-quarter of a dollar.
• In the later Middle Ages, Tilburg referred to a region rather than a particular town or village; its population was largely in a couple of hamlets, one of which was known as "Eastern Tilburg" (Oost-Tilburg), which was later reflected in the name Oisterwijk ("Eastern Quarter").
• In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages: over half of all LACCD students are older than 25 years of age, and more than a quarter are 35 or older.
• To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by Joachim Murat), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-plan with a promenade on the sea and the major shopping district (the via Sparano and via Argiro).
• A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.
• Tropical rainforests have been called the "jewels of the Earth" and the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered there.
• Several songs subsequently became fixtures in the group's live set, including "The Song Remains the Same", "The Rain Song" and "No Quarter".
• With 2,253 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and 270,000 employees as of fiscal year 2019, it had 1,075 supermarkets located in 29 U.
• The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street.

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