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, 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 France, communes of the Puy-de-Dôme Departments of Franc ...

, a settlement in France * The Quarter, Anguilla * Quartier, Sud, Haiti

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 g ...

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, a 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 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 u ...

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: Ja ...

, 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 solstic ...

, 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) 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 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) * William Quarter (1806–1848)