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Noun

quarter (countable and uncountable, plural quarters)

1. (broadly) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
   • I ate a quarter of the pizza.

   Synonyms:

   fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, ¼

2. (historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
   • One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 204
3. A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
4. (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
5. (historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
   • And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark vj:[48]
6. A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
   • The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN

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