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A '''quarter''' is one-fourth, {{frac|1|4}}, 25%, or 0.25. {{wiktionary|quarter|one fourth|one quarter|quarters|quartier}} '''Quarter''' or '''quarters''' may refer to: {{tocright}} ==Places== * [[Quarter (urban subdivision)]], a section or area, usually of a town ===Placenames=== * [[Quarter, South Lanarkshire]], a settlement in Scotland * [[Le Quartier]], a settlement in France * [[The Quarter, Anguilla]] * [[Quartier, Sud, Haiti]] ==Arts, entertainment, and media== * [[Quarters (children's game)]] or bloody knuckles, a schoolyard game involving quarters or other coins * [[Quarters (game)]], a drinking game * ''[[Quarters!]]'', a 2015 album by the psychedelic rock group King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard * [[Quarter note]], in music one quarter of a whole note * [[Quarters (Wilco song)|"Quarters" (Wilco song)]] * [[Quarter (song)|"Quarter" (song)]] ==Coins== * [[Quarter (Canadian coin)]], valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar * [[Quarter (United States coin)]], valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar ** [[Washington quarter]], the current design of this coin * [[Quarter farthing]], an archaic British monetary unit * [[Quarter dollar]], {{frac|1|4}} unit of currencies that are named dollar * [[Quarter guinea]], a British coin ==Military== * [[General quarters]], a naval status requiring all hands to go to battle stations * [[Barracks]] or quarters, buildings built to house military personnel or laborers * Quarter, a promise or guarantee of mercy to a vanquished enemy; see [[Safe conduct]] ==Time== * [[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 * [[Academic quarter (year division)]], a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks * [[Quarter days]], in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due * [[Quarter (calendar year)]], one of four divisions of a calendar year * One of four divisions (each three months) of a [[fiscal year]] ==Other uses== * [[Quarter (unit)]], various obsolete customary units of measurement * [[Quarters of nobility]] or quarterings, the number of generations in which noble status has been held by a family * [[Hanged, drawn and quartered]], formerly a punishment for treason in England * [[Quarter (heraldry)]] * [[William Quarter]] (1806β1848) * The back and rearward sides of a [[Shoe#Construction|shoe]] ==See also== * {{look from}} * {{in title|quarter}} * [[1/4 (disambiguation)]] * [[No quarter (disambiguation)]] * [[The Quarters (disambiguation)]] * [[QTR (disambiguation)]] * [[Quart (disambiguation)]] * [[Quarterdeck (disambiguation)]] * [[Quartering (disambiguation)]] * [[Quartet (disambiguation)]] * [[Quarterly]], a magazine published four times a year * ''[[Quartiere]]'', a subdivision of certain Italian towns * [[Quartier (unit)]], an obsolete French unit of measurement * [[Quartile]], a term from statistics, meaning "fourth" * [[Fourth (disambiguation)]] {{Disambiguation|geo|surname}}
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