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# quarter

«quarter» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of four equal parts of something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (quarter, quarters); verb (quarter, quarters, quartered)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A quarter is one of four equal parts of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#m1)

2) A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes: «a quarter past three». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#m2)

3) In the USA and Canada, a quarter is a coin worth 25 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#m3)

4) A quarter is one part of a game (some sports have 4 quarters) or of a year (3 months). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#m4)

5) To quarter something is to cut it into four. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#m5)

6) A quarter can also mean a direction or a source, a place where something comes from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

one part of four equal parts: «a quarter of N» is N ÷ 4; four quarters make a whole; in time «quarter past» and «quarter to»; phrases: «a quarter of», «three quarters», «quarter past», «quarter to», «a quarter of an hour»

### examples

- Zoe loses a quarter of her stickers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x1)
- Three quarters of the 20 children are girls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x2)
- Tom ate a quarter of the pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x3)
- It is a quarter past three. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x4)
- A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x5)
- I paid with four quarters, which is one dollar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x6)
- Our team scored in the last quarter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x7)
- Cut the apple into quarters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x8)
- Misfortune often assails us from an unexpected quarter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/#x9)

### note

«A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes.» «A dollar is 4 quarters.» «a quarter of N» is N ÷ 4; «three quarters» is 3 × (N ÷ 4). Trap: «a quarter past 3» is about time, 15 minutes. A quarter is the same as a fourth.

### In the corpora

- [Coral reefs cover less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor but are home to about a quarter of all sea fish species.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/4/)
- [About three quarters of all kinds of life died out; frogs, turtles, crocodiles, small mammals and some birds survived.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/11/)
- [Sadly, more than a quarter of parrot kinds are threatened, mainly by forest loss and by people catching them as pets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/7/)
- [An owl cannot move its eyes, so it turns its head, but only about three quarters of the way round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/7/)
- [Grapes should be cut into quarters lengthways for toddlers, and whole nuts and popcorn should not be given to small children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quarter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.