quarter
∞
1.3
- noun
- /ˈkwɔrtər/
:
cuarto
- She turned in about a quarter to two.
- one quarter
- a quarter of respondents
- last quarter
My start date is the second quarter of next year.
- My start date is the second quarter of next year.
- We have our last event of the quarter coming up this Sunday.
- What have we eaten for the last quarter of a million years?
- So has this helped my quarter life crisis?
- OK, that's that's a quarter of a percent a month.
Examples
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My start date is the second quarter of next year.
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According to the AUM admissions office, for Fall Quarter, the AUM campus had 5,354 students enrolled.
Academic text (2008) -
We have our last event of the quarter coming up this Sunday.
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Only about half of the top quarter in academic ability are receiving further education.
Academic text (2008) -
The hands on her windup clock say it's a quarter past three in the morning.
Fiction book (1990) -
The shutdown could wipe out an entire quarter of GDP growth.
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According to the TUM admissions office, for Fall Quarter, the TUM campus had 4,312 students enrolled.
Academic text (2008) -
The team is preparing for the finals after winning their matches in the last quarter.
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During the fourth quarter, sales typically increase due to the holiday season.
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She made significant progress in her studies this quarter, earning high marks across all subjects.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
A length of time with a clear start and end, like a class or game segment
29
1.0
One of four equal parts of a whole
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
Idioms
- Offensive
4
9.9
To kill someone by tying limbs to four horses and pulling them apart, or to punish very harshly
- Offensive
1
9.9
To threaten or kill someone by hanging, cutting their body open and dividing it into four parts
Compounds
- Specialized
20
3.2
The time when the Moon looks half lit about one week after the new moon
- Specialized
4
4.1
Half the Moon is lit when it comes after a full moon and before a new moon
4
3.7
A small, strong American horse bred for short, fast races like quarter-mile sprints
1
7.5
Fighting that happens at very short distance between people, often hand-to-hand
- Specialized
1
9.9
A vertical crack on the inside of a horse's front hoof that can make the horse limp
- Specialized
1
7.2
A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Archaic
1
9.9
A local court in England and Wales that met four times a year to try crimes before 1972
- Archaic
A unit of length equal to 10,000 km, one fourth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator
- Specialized
A musical interval half the size of a semitone used in some modern and non-Western music
- US
A woody vine from the southern United States with bright flowers and a cross-shaped stem when cut
- Specialized
A book with its spine and most of the sides covered in a different material like leather
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quarter comes from the Latin word quartus, which means 'fourth'. It originally meant 'one of four parts', so a quarter of something is one fourth of the whole.