quartering
6.5
Dividing something into four equal parts
- noun
- /ˈkwɔrtərɪŋ/
:
cuartelamiento
- During the art class, students practiced quartering their canvases to create equal sections for their drawings.
Examples
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The map was divided into quartering sections to make it easier for hikers to navigate.
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Cut it into quarters and then take this shape and then squish it into half the width.
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Cut it into quarters and then take this shape and then squish it into half the width.
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The chef demonstrated proper quartering by slicing the apple into four equal pieces.
Surface Forms
quartering singular
quarterings plural
Morphology
Etymology
Quartering comes from Latin quartus 'fourth' and simply means 'making four parts'. That is why you can quarter a cake into four equal pieces and why the old punishment called 'quartering' meant cutting into four parts.
