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

Places

Quarter (urban subdivision) A quarter is a part of an urban area, 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 ...

, 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 Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word 'soldier's tent', but today barracks ar ...

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), 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 (1806–1848) * The back and rearward sides of a

shoe A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot. Though the human foot can adapt to varied terrains and climate conditions, it is vulnerable, and shoes provide protection. Form was originally tied to function, but ...