Quartering

Quartering may refer to:

• dividing into four parts:
  • Hanged, drawn and quartered, quartering as a punishment
  • Quartering (heraldry)
• Coning and Quartering a process for splitting of an analytic sample
• Quartering the process of diluting an alloy by melting it with some other metal to make dissolution easier. Traditionally in gold parting one part of a gold alloy was melted with three parts of copper to permit all components but gold to be dissolved in nitric acid.
• The Quartering Acts, requiring American civilians to provide living spaces for British soldiers prior to the American Revolution