quarter-

See also: quarter

English

Prefix

quarter- (also spelled with adjective quarter)

1. 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

Derived terms

• quarter-century
• quarter-day
• quarter-final
• quarter-finalist
• quarter-phase

• quarter-pipe
• quarter-pounder
• quarter-saw
• quarter-witted

See also

• half- (prefix for a half part)