Quarter (n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided |
Quarter (n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. |
Quarter (n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain |
Quarter (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution |
Quarter (n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts |
Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. |
Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. |
Quarter (n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc. |
Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. |
Quarter (n.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck |
Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. |
Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county |
Quarter (v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions |
Quarter (v. t.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ |
Quarter (v. t.) Proper station |
Quarter (v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle |
Quarter (v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence |
Quarter (v. t.) A station or encampment occupied by troops |
Quarter (v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy |
Quarter (v. t.) Friendship |
Quarter (v. i.) To lodge |
Quarter (v. i.) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. |
Quarter-deck (n.) That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. |
Quarter round () An ovolo. |
Three-quarter (a.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five |
Wave (v. t.) See Waive. |
Wave (v. i.) To play loosely |
Wave (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal. |
Wave (v. i.) To fluctuate |
Wave (v. t.) To move one way and the other |
Wave (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface |
Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating |
Wave (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand |
Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest |
Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound |
Wave (v. i.) Water |
Wave (v. i.) Unevenness |
Wave (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion |
Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. |
Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy |
Wave (n.) Woe. |
overshoot wave-off go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
close-quarter fighting | hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters |
quarter | clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent, he surrendered but asked for quarter |
quarter horse | a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia |
full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
ovolo thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
quarter | piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp |
quarter plate | a photographic plate measuring . inches by . inches |
stern after part quarter poop tail | the rear part of a ship |
three-quarter binding | the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover |
waveguide wave guide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves, used in radar |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
permanent wave permanent perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
wave theory undulatory theory wave theory of light | (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as waves |
wave mechanics | the modern form of quantum theory, an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation, atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves |
Schrodinger equation Schrodinger wave equation | the fundamental equation of wave mechanics |
wave equation | a differential equation that describes the passage of harmonic waves through a medium |
quarter tone quarter-tone | half of a semitone |
quarter note crotchet | a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note |
quarter rest | a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest |
wave waving wafture | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
gravity wave gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve |
wave undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
soliton soliton wave solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
standing wave stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time |
traveling wave travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave |
sound wave acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
air wave | a sound wave that is transmitted via air |
wave form waveform wave shape | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time |
shock wave blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
swell crestless wave | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
tidal wave | a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun |
tidal wave | an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide |
tidal wave | an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon, a tidal wave of nausea, the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave, a tidal wave of crime |
roller roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
wave | something that rises rapidly, a wave of emotion swept over him, there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed, a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right |
lamb's-quarter pigweed wild spinach | leaves collected from the wild |
quarter sessions | a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions |
wave train | a succession of waves spaced at regular intervals |
avant-garde vanguard van new wave | any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) |
New Wave Nouvelle Vague | an art movement in French cinema in the s |
quarter | a district of a city having some distinguishing character, the Latin Quarter |
wave front wavefront | (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium |
Left Bank Latin Quarter | the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine, a center of artistic and student life |