Quarter

A quarter is one fourth, ¹⁄₄, ¼, 25%, or 0.25 and may refer to:

• Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
• Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
• Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
• Academic quarter (year division), a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks
• 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
• Fiscal quarter, one fourth (three months) of a fiscal year
• Quarter, imperial units equal to:
  • 4 ounces (113 g), or one fourth of 1 pound (0.45 kg)
  • 28 pounds (12.7 kg), or one fourth of 1 long hundredweight (112 lb or 50.8 kg)
• Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a small settlement in Scotland
• Quarter (Fuel song), a song from the Fuel album Natural Selection

See also

• 1/4 (disambiguation)
• Quarter days, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due
• Quarters (drinking game), a drinking game using the U.S. coins
• Quarterly
• Quartering (disambiguation)
• Quartering (heraldry), joining several coats of arms on one shield partitioned in four
• Quartile
• Quartier, districts in Paris
• Quartiere, a subdivision of certain Italian towns
• The Quarter at Tropicana, an entertainment and retail attraction in Atlantic City, New Jersey
• 1st Battalion 4th Marines (¹⁄₄), a unit in the United States Marine Corps
• Close quarters battle
• General quarters
• Military quarters, also known as barracks
• No quarter occurs when a victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life of the vanquished when they surrender at discretion