quarter-hour

quar·ter-hour

also quar·ter hour (kwôr′tər-our′)

n.

1. Fifteen minutes.

2. The point on a clock's face marking either 15 minutes after or 15 minutes before an hour.

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quarter-hour

n

1. (Units) a period of 15 minutes

2. (Horology) any of the points on the face of a timepiece that mark 15 minutes before or after the hour, and sometimes 30 minutes after

ˌquarter-ˈhourly adv, adj

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quar•ter-hour

(ˈkwɔr tərˈaʊ^ər, -ˈaʊ ər)

n.

1. a period of 15 minutes.

2. a point 15 minutes after or before the hour.

[1880–85]

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

quarter-hour - a quarter of an hour       15 minutes time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods 60 minutes, hour, hr - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"

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Translations

quarter-hour

[ˈkwɔːtəˈaʊəʳ] N → cuarto m de hora

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