Quarter

Quarter may refer to:

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• Quarter (U.S. coin), worth one-fourth of a US dollar
• Quarter (Canadian coin), worth one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
• a unit of the fiscal year
• an academic period shorter than a semester (approximately 10 weeks instead of 15)
• a unit of measurement. In the Imperial system, a quarter is two stone (28 pounds), or one-quarter of a hundredweight.
• a pardon, specifically, not killing a defeated opponent
• in heraldry, unless specified as a quarter sinister or sinister quarter, an ordinary occupying the dexter chief (viewer's upper left) quarter of the field of a shield, or, if the field is quarterly (divided into four by cross-like lines), one of the quarters thus formed

Quarter is also a part of a city:

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• French Quarter in New Orleans
• Latin Quarter in Paris

To print a one-quarter ¼ symbol in HTML, ¼ can be used. Likewise, a three-quarters ¾ symbol is ¾.

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