quarter-
See also: quarter
English
Prefix
quarter- (also spelled with adjective quarter)
- 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 1227855:
- “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)