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See also: quarter

quarter- (also spelled with adjective quarter)

A prefix for something related to a quarter, mostly used to denote 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.”