Quartering
Appearance
Quartering may refer to:
- dividing into four parts:
- Hanged, drawn and quartered, quartering as a punishment
- Quartering (heraldry)
- Coning and Quartering a process for splitting of an analytic sample
- Quartering the process of diluting an alloy by melting it with some other metal to make dissolution easier. Traditionally in gold parting one part of a gold alloy was melted with three parts of copper to permit all components but gold to be dissolved in nitric acid.
- The Quartering Acts, requiring American civilians to provide living spaces for British soldiers prior to the American Revolution