quarter-hour

Examples

• All

• Chester was alone in his room for a whole quarter hour before Sanger appeared in his doorway.

  Fiction book (1995)

• He'd checked every quarter hour, he told us.

  Fiction book (2002)

• You have kept him a quarter hour.

  Nosferatu (2024)

• "You can hear the tall case clock in the hall strike every quarter hour."

  Fiction book (1994)

• Far away, a clock strikes the quarter hour.

  Fiction book (1990)

• In the next quarter hour, some women entered the cafe, and some came out again.

  Fiction book (1997)

• There it said, clear as could be, whose turn it was at each quarter-hour.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Weather updates are coming in every quarter hour from Kimball.

  Amelia (2009)

• A quarter hour later, Edna is quiet as they drive through the residential streets toward Interstate 44.

  Fiction book (1997)

• For nearly a quarter-hour, Jolie-Gray sits on the tub's edge this way, in silence.

  Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

Q

quarter

vsquarter-hour

∞ 1.3

One of four equal parts or periods of time

is narrower and refers specifically to a fifteen minute time span

1

15 minutes

vsquarter-hour

445 1.0

A period of time that lasts fifteen minutes

is the specific named fifteen minute part of an hour

How Long

day

∞ 1.0

hour

∞ 1.0

half-hour

395 1.0

quarter-hour

5 1.0

minute

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology