Quarter

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A quarter is one fourth, ¹⁄₄, or 25%, and may refer to:

• Quarter (country subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
• Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
• Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
• Academic quarter (year division), a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks
• Academic quarter (class timing), term used by universities in various European countries for the 15 minutes between the defined start time for a lecture and the actual time it will start
• Fiscal quarter, three months of a fiscal year
• Quarter, equal to 28 pounds (or a quarter of a hundredweight) using imperial units of weight
• Quarter, equal to 4 ounces (or a quarter of a pound) using imperial units of weight
• Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a small settlement in Scotland

See also

• 1/4 (disambiguation)
• Quarter days, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due
• Quarters (drinking game), a drinking game using the U.S. coins
• Quarterly
• Quartering (disambiguation)
• Quartering (heraldry), joining several coats of arms on one shield partitioned in four
• Quartile
• Quartier, districts in Paris
• Quartiere, a subdivision of certain Italian towns
• The Quarter at Tropicana, an entertainment and retail attraction in Atlantic City, New Jersey
• 1st Battalion 4th Marines (1/4), a unit in the United States Marine Corps
• Close quarters battle
• General quarters
• Barracks, also known as military quarters
• No quarter occurs when a victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life of the vanquished when they surrender at discretion

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