one-quarter
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1.0
- noun
- /wʌnˈkwɔrtər/
:
cuarto
- He saved one-quarter of his salary each month to buy a new car.
- about one-quarter
- approximately one-quarter
- nearly one-quarter
NVIDIA still double Tesla's free cash flow in just one quarter.
- NVIDIA still double Tesla's free cash flow in just one quarter.
- But these two stages on this outer journey level take us up to the one quarter mark, the end of Act one.
- Tingo's food division claimed to generate more than half a billion dollars in revenue in just one quarter, but doesn't actually have a food processing facility.
Examples
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Yet by the end of the 1960s, hybrids still made up almost one-quarter of French vines.
Academic text (1993) -
Another 33.0 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed, while over one-quarter (26.1 percent) were undecided.
Academic text (1994) -
You may not realize it, but he gives us almost one quarter of our working capital.
Fiction book (1999) -
Let us step forward in time one quarter of an hour.
Fiction book (1999) -
In both countries, one quarter to one third of respondents recommended political action.
Academic text (1999) -
On average, energy consumption per person in developing countries is about one-quarter of the global average.
Academic text (1994) -
In the United States today, one-quarter of all adults are functionally illiterate.
Academic text (1999) -
Following a stroke, the risk of future vascular events can be reduced by about one-quarter by treatment with aspirin.
Academic text (2011) -
Solomon agreed to a total budget of £100,000 immediately advancing one quarter of this in cash.
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Conventional crude oil extracted from non-oil-sands sources accounts for one-quarter of the province's total oil production (Alberta Energy n.d.).
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
∞
1.3
One of four equal parts or periods of time
21
1.0
One of four equal parts of something
12
1.0
One of four equal parts, for example of a cake or pie
1
1.0
One of four equal pieces of something
Antonyms
How Small
1
3.6
3
1.6
18
1.0
29
1.0
61
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
One-quarter is simply one + quarter, and quarter comes from an old word meaning 'a fourth' or 'one of four'. So, one-quarter means one of four equal parts, like one slice when you cut a pizza into four.