(historical) One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.

plural of quarterer

division into quarters / (business) generation of quarterly data based on figures from periods of another size

(time) quarter of an hour; period of time equal to 15 minutes; a quarter.

(military) No mercy; no sparing the life of a captured opponent.

plural of quarter tone

An automaton, on a clock, that strikes a bell every quarter hour

Less common spelling of one-quarter

One quarter (1/4, ¼, 0.25).

Alternative form of hindquarters