Quartering may refer to: * Dividing into four parts: **

Dismemberment Dismemberment is the act of cutting, ripping, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise disconnecting the limbs from a living or dead being. It has been practiced upon human beings as a form of capital punishment, especially in connection with ...

- a form of execution ** Hanged, drawn and quartered - another form of execution **

Quartering (heraldry) Quartering is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. Typically, a quartering consists of a division into four ...

Coning and quartering In analytical chemistry, sub-sampling is a procedure by which a small, representative sample is taken from a larger sample. Good sub-sampling technique becomes important when the large sample is not homogeneous. Techniques Coning and quartering ...

a process for splitting of an analytic sample * Quartering, a method in the assaying of gold; see *The Quartering Acts, requiring American civilians to provide living spaces for British soldiers prior to the American Revolution

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