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 A quarter note ( AmE) or crotchet ( BrE) () is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. The stem usually ...

, in music one quarter of a whole note * "Quarters" (Wilco song) * "Quarter" (song)

Coins

Quarter (Canadian coin) The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a Canadian coins, Canadian coin worth 25 Penny (Canadian coin), cents or one-fourth of a Canadian dollar. It is a small, circular coin of silver colour. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the offici ...

, valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar *

Quarter (United States coin) The quarter, formally known as the quarter dollar, is a coin in the United States valued at 25 cents, representing one-quarter of a United States dollar, dollar. Adorning its obverse is the profile of George Washington, while its reverse design ...

, 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 General quarters, battle stations, or action stations is an announcement made aboard a navy, naval warship to signal that all hands (everyone available) aboard a ship must go to battle stations (the positions they are to assume when the ves ...

, 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) An academic quarter refers to the division of an academic year into four parts, which commonly are not all exactly three months or thirteen weeks long due to breaks between terms. Historical context The modern academic quarter calendar can be t ...

, a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks *

Quarter days In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days are the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, school terms started, and rents were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart and close to the two solst ...

, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due *

Quarter (calendar year) A calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A calendar date, date is the design ...

, one of four divisions of a calendar year * One of four divisions (each three months) of a

fiscal year A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes. It is also used for financial reporting by businesses and other organizations. La ...

Other uses

Quarter (unit) The quarter ( "one-fourth") was used as the name of several distinct English units based on ¼ sizes of some base unit. The "quarter of London" mentioned by ''Magna Carta'' as the national standard measure for wine, ale, and grain was ¼ ton o ...

, various obsolete customary units of measurement *

Quarters of nobility The power arrangements in the continental Europe prior to the 20th century gave preference to nobility. Some civil, ecclesiastical, and military positions had required the holder to be sufficiently noble, with quarters of nobility being a numerica ...

or quarterings, the number of generations in which noble status has been held by a family *

Hanged, drawn and quartered To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torture, torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of High treason in the United Kingdom, high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convi ...

, formerly a punishment for treason in England *

Quarter (heraldry) Quartering is a method of joining several different coat of arms, coats of arms together in one Escutcheon (heraldry), shield by Division of the field, dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. ...

William Quarter William J. Quarter (January 21, 1806 – April 10, 1848) was an Irish-born Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Chicago from 1844 to 1848. Biography Early years William Quarter was born on January 21, 1806, in Killurin, King's County, in ...

(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 ...