Quarter

A quarter is one-fourth, ¼, 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

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

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

Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a small settlement in Scotland
Armenian Quarter, a district of Jerusalem
French Quarter, a district of New Orleans
German Quarter, a district of Moscow
Gun Quarter, a district of the city of Birmingham, England
Jewellery Quarter, an area of Birmingham, England
Moroccan Quarter, a district of Jerusalem
Muslim Quarter, a district of Jerusalem
Quarters of Paris (Quartiers), administrative subdivisions in Paris
Quartiere, a subdivision of certain Italian towns
The Quarter at Tropicana, an entertainment and retail attraction in Atlantic City, New Jersey

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
Fiscal quarter, one-fourth (three months) of a fiscal year
Quarter days, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due
Quarter of a calendar year, one of four divisions of the calendar year
Quarter on quarter, an accounting term

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

American quarter horse, a horse breed
Hanged, drawn and quartered, formerly a punishment for treason in England
Quarter glass, a side window in the front door or located on each side of the car just forward of the rear window
Quarter panel, the body panel of an automobile between a rear door and the trunk
Quarter Pounder, a food product of McDonald's
Quarter round, a shape applied to molding
Quarter sawing, a type of cut made in lumbering operations
Quarterdeck, a raised deck behind the main mast of a sailing ship
Quarters of nobility, proof that all four grandparents were aristocrats

gollark: Actually, this is somewhat true even with much less technology, since global trade has IIRC been required for *ages* to keep everything running.

gollark: If you want to maintain our current technology, you need wide-scale coordination for the economies of scale to work out.

gollark: Technology is too complicated for it to work now.

gollark: It won't go well *at all*.

gollark: The grid here noticeably breaks for a few hours every year or so, presumably because there's a lot of redundancy due to lots of components in it. If we had a smaller-scale one, it would either have to be really overbuilt or fail when it was cloudy for too many weeks or something like that, but it would be free of cascading-failure-y problems.