Quarter

A quarter is one-fourth, ΒΌ, 25% or 0.25 (the reciprocal of 4). The term may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Quarter note, in music one quarter of a whole note
  • Quarter-note = 78, also known as The Violin Concerto by the American composer John Adams, written in 1993
  • Quarterly, a magazine published four times a year
  • Quarters (game), drinking game
  • "Quarters", also known as bloody knuckles, a schoolyard game involving quarters or other coins
  • Quarters!, a 2015 album by the psychedelic rock group King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Coins

Military

  • Close quarters battle, a confrontation of small units engaging the enemy with personal weapons at very short range
  • General quarters, a naval status requiring all hands to go to battle stations
  • Headquarters, the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated
  • Military quarters, also known as barracks

Places

Time

Units

  • Quarter (unit), various obsolete customary units of measurement
  • Quarter acre, a term for a suburban plot of land
  • Quarter section, an area of one-fourth of a square mile, or 160 acres (0.65 km2)
  • Quartier (unit), an obsolete French units of measurement
  • Quartile, a term from statistics, meaning "fourth"

Other uses

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See also

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