quarter-
English
Prefix
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:
- “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
See also
- half- (prefix for a half part)
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