Quarter

A quarter is one-fourth, 1⁄4, 25% or 0.25.

Quarter or quarters may refer to:

Places

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)

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, 1⁄4 unit of currencies that are named dollar
Quarter guinea, a British coin

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

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

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

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