A quarter is one-fourth, , 25% or 0.25. Quarter or quarters may refer to:

Places

Quarter (urban subdivision) A quarter is a section of an urban settlement. A quarter can be administratively defined and its borders officially designated, and it may have its own administrative structure (subordinate to that of the city, town or other urban area). Such a ...

, a section or area, usually of a town

Placenames

Quarter, South Lanarkshire Quarter is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the hill above the Clyde Valley. History Francis Groome described the village in 1884-4 thus: :"Quarter Ironworks and Darngaber, a conjoint village in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire, 3 mil ...

, a settlement in Scotland * Le Quartier, a settlement in France *

The Quarter, Anguilla The Quarter is one of the fourteen Districts of Anguilla. Its population at the 2011 census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is use ...

Quartier, Sud, Haiti Quartier is a village in the Aquin commune of the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti. The village is located 2 miles northeast of Aquin Aquin (; ht, Aken) is a commune in the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud departmen ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Quarters (children's game) or bloody knuckles, a schoolyard game involving quarters or other coins *

Quarters (game) Quarters is a drinking game which involves players bouncing an American quarter or similar-size coin off a table in an attempt to have the quarter land in a certain place, usually into a shot glass (or cup) on that table. It is also played in So ...

, a drinking game * ''

Quarters! ''Quarters!'' is the sixth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 1 May 2015 on Heavenly Records, peaking at No. 99 on the ARIA Charts. The album was nominated for Best Jazz A ...

'', a 2015 album by the psychedelic rock group King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard *

Quarter note A quarter note (American) or crotchet ( ) (British) is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. The stem ...

, in music one quarter of a whole note * "Quarters" (Wilco song) * "Quarter" (song)

Coins

Quarter (Canadian coin) The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a Canadian coin worth 25 cents or one-fourth of a Canadian dollar. It is a small, circular coin of silver colour. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official name for the coin is the 25-cent pie ...

, valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar *

Quarter (United States coin) The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a United States coin worth 25 cents, one-quarter of a dollar. The coin sports the profile of George Washington on its obverse, and after 1998 its reverse design has changed frequently. It has been produ ...

, valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar **

Washington quarter The Washington quarter is the present quarter dollar or 25-cent piece issued by the United States Mint. The coin was first struck in 1932; the original version was designed by sculptor John Flanagan. As the United States prepared to celebrate ...

, the current design of this coin *

Quarter farthing The British quarter farthing was a denomination of sterling coinage worth of a pound, of a shilling, or of a penny. It was produced for circulation in Ceylon in various years between 1839 and 1853, with proof coins being produced in 1868. It ...

, a British monetary unit *

Quarter dollar The term "quarter dollar" refers to a quarter-unit of several currencies that are named "dollar". One dollar ( $1) is normally divided into subsidiary currency of 100 cents, so a quarter dollar is equal to 25 cents. These quarter dollars (aka qu ...

, unit of currencies that are named dollar *

Quarter guinea The Quarter guinea was a British coin minted only in the years 1718 and 1762. As the name implies, it was valued at one-fourth of a guinea, which at that time was worth twenty-one shillings (£1.05). The quarter guinea therefore was valued at fiv ...

, a British coin

Military

General quarters General quarters, battle stations, or action stations is an announcement made aboard a naval warship A warship or combatant ship is a naval ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the arme ...

, 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) An academic quarter (localized into various languages in the countries where it is practised) is the quarter-hour (15 minute) discrepancy between the defined start time for a lecture or lesson ("per schema") and the actual starting time, at some u ...

, 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) Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days. A year can also be measured by starting on any ...

, one of four divisions of a calendar year * One of four divisions (each three months) of a

fiscal year A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes. It is also used for financial reporting by businesses and other organizations. Laws in many ...

Other uses

Quarter (unit) The quarter ( "one-fourth") was used as the name of several distinct English units based on ¼ sizes of some base unit. The "quarter of London" mentioned by ''Magna Carta'' as the national standard measure for wine, ale, and grain was ¼ ton or ...

, various obsolete customary units of measurement *

Quarters of nobility Quarters of nobility is an expression used in the bestowal of hereditary titles and refers to the number of generations in typically an ahnentafel in which noble status has been held by a family regardless of whether a title was actually in use by ...

or quarterings, the number of generations in which noble status has been held by a family *

Hanged, drawn and quartered To be hanged, drawn and quartered became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352 under Edward III of England, King Edward III (1327–1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the rei ...

, formerly a punishment for treason in England *

Quarter (heraldry) Quartering is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. Typically, a quartering consists of a division into fou ...

William Quarter William J. Quarter (January 21, 1806 – April 10, 1848) was an Irish American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of Chicago (1844–1848). Biography Early years William Quarter was born in Killurin, King's County, Ireland ...

(1806–1848)