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A quarter is:- One of four equal parts of a single thing (sometimes referred to as a fourth in US English).
- A 1/4 (¼) part of many other things, including the year, the cycle of the moon, or a city (i.e. the French Quarter of New Orleans). A quarter is also an academic period like a semester, but shorter (approximately 10 weeks instead of 15).
- The name for coins which are worth one-fourth (1/4) of a dollar. Such coins exist in the United States and Canada. See quarter (U.S. coin) and quarter (Canadian coin) .
- The name for several units of measurementDisparate systems of units of measurement used to be very common. Now there is a global standard, the Systeme Internationale (SI) system of units (informally known as the Metric System), which has been or is being adopted in most major countries of the wo, each of which is one-fourth of some larger unit. In the Imperial system, a quarter is two stoneStone can refer to any of the following: A rock. See also stone skipping, curling. As a verb, to stone a method of execution using rocks, stoning. A gemstone, as used in jewelry. A unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds. The hard covering enclosing the s (28 poundOfficially the pound is the name for at least three different units of mass: the pound (avoirdupois the troy pound the obsolete imperial pound There also exists an unofficial metric pound . While most standards bodies define the pound as a unit of mass, ms), or one-quarter of a hundredweightHundred weight or hundredweight is a unit of measurement for weight in both the system of measurement used in the United Kingdom and Ireland (and previously throughout the British Commonwealth), and in the system used in the United States. Unfortunately i.
- Requesting clemency specifically not killing a defeated opponent.
- in heraldryHeraldry is the knowledge and art of describing-coats-of-arms, also referred to as achievements or armorial bearings. Its origins are in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts and to describe the various devices they carried or painted, unless specified as a quarter sinister or sinister quarter, an ordinaryIn ecclesiastical terms an Ordinary is the incumbent of a position of authority within the hierarchical organisation of the Church. Examples of Ordinaries, therefore, are the priest of a parish, bishop of a diocese and the archbishop of an archdiocese. occupying the dexter chief (viewer's upper left) quarter of the "field" of a shield
- as a verb, to quarter means to divide in to quarters, such as when killing an animal for food
To print a one-quarter ¼ symbol in HTML, ¼ can be used. Likewise, a three-quarters ¾ symbol is ¾.
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