A quarter is one-fourth, , 25% or 0.25.

Quarter or quarters may refer to:

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)
  • "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, 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 and no quarter

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 or fiscal year (q.v.)

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 (1806–1848)
  • Lunar phase - Shape of the Moon's sunlit portion as viewed from Earth, sometimes called the quarters.

See also

  • 1/4 (disambiguation)
  • Fourth (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 "one fourth"
  • Shoe (The back and rearward sides of a shoe are called quarters)