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A quarter is one-fourth, ¼, 25% or 0.25 and may refer to:
- Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
- Quarter section, an area of one-fourth of a square mile, or 160 acres (0.65 km2)
- Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
- Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
- Quarter of a calendar year
- 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, one-fourth (three months) of a fiscal year
- Quarter (unit), various obsolete customary units of measurement
- Quartier (unit), an obsolete French units of measurement
- "Quarters", also known as bloody knuckles, a schoolyard game involving quarters or other coins
- Quarters of nobility, proof that all four grandparents were aristocrats
Other uses
- 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
- The French Quarter of New Orleans
- 1st Battalion 4th Marines (¼), a unit in the United States Marine Corps
- Close quarters battle
- General quarters
- Headquarters
- Military quarters, also known as barracks
- 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
- QTR (disambiguation)
- Quartet (disambiguation)
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