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.

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

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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quarter-hour - a quarter of an hour 15 minutestime unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods60 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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