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 Le Quartier () is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. See also *Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department The following is a list of the 464 communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department of France. Intercommunali ...

, a settlement in France * The Quarter, Anguilla *

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 department o ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Quarters (children's game) Bloody knuckles is a game in which each player makes a fist with the thumb wrapped around the other fingers. Then each fist punches the other's fist. Players who flinch are out of the game. Whoever lasts the longest before quitting wins the ga ...

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 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 pi ...

, 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 pr ...

, 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, a British monetary unit * Quarter dollar, unit of currencies that are named dollar *

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

, a British coin

Military

General quarters General quarters, battle stations, or action stations is an announcement made aboard a naval warship to signal that all hands (everyone available) aboard a ship must go to battle stations (the positions they are to assume when the vessel i ...

, a naval status requiring all hands to go to battle stations *

Barracks Barracks are usually a group of long buildings built to house military personnel or laborers. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word "barraca" ("soldier's tent"), but today barracks are ...

or quarters, buildings built to house military personnel or laborers * Quarter, a promise or guarantee of mercy to a vanquished enemy; see

Safe conduct Safe conduct, safe passage, or letters of transit, is the situation in time of international conflict or war where one state, a party to such conflict, issues to a person (usually an enemy state's subject) a pass or document to allow the enemy ...

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) An academic quarter refers to the division of an academic year into four parts. Historical context The modern academic quarter calendar can be traced to the historic English law court / legal training pupillage four term system: * Hilary: J ...

, a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks *

Quarter days In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, school terms started, and rents were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart and close to the two sols ...

, 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 ju ...

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 King Edward III (1327–1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III ...

, 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 four ...

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)