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quarter-

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See also: quarter and Quarter

English

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Prefix

quarter-

A quarter: either a fourth part, or a three-month term.
A quarter-century is twenty-five years.

A quarter-day is one terminating a quarter of the year.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
  “When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with quarter-

Derived terms

Translations

Translations

Dutch: kwart (nl)
Polish: ćwierć (pl)

See also

half- (prefix for a half part)

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