0 one of four equal or almost equal parts of something; ¼:
Under a quarter of people questioned said that they were happily married.
I was there three-quarters of an hour.
an hour and three-quarters
It was a quarter to six when I left.
I'll meet you at a quarter past five.
There was a fall in unemployment in the second quarter of the year.
I get an electricity bill every quarter.
1 in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents
2 an area of a town where a particular group of people live or work or where a particular activity happens:
This is the bustling commercial quarter of the city.
3 one or more people who provide help, information, or a particular reaction to something but who are not usually named:
4 a room or house that has been provided, especially for servants or soldiers and their families, to live in:
5 the fact of being kind towards or forgiving an enemy or opponent:
He gave no quarter to anyone that disappointed him.
6 to cut something into four parts
7 to send someone, especially soldiers, to live in a place:
9 in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents
10 an area of a city or place having a special history or character:
11 to divide something into four pieces of approximately the same size:
The fall in the value of the yen might result in a fractional increase in interest rates of perhaps a quarter of one percent.
Road accident victims make up almost a quarter of the hospital's patients.
He inherited a quarter of a million pounds on his mother's death.
A quarter of the contents of an average family's dustbin is organic matter.
The horizons are = 1, 4, 8, and 12 quarters.
The lower one was the altar of the chapel, and the upper one, supported by four columns, was visible from the inmates' quarters.
The formation of urban quarters allowed land speculators to undertake the densest possible exploitation of the lots.
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