quarter-

Prefix

(also spelled with adjective quarter)

1. 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.”

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