ONE-QUARTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-quarter mean? 

• ONE-QUARTER (noun)
  The noun ONE-QUARTER has 1 sense:

1. one of four equal parts

  Familiarity information: ONE-QUARTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-QUARTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

fourth; fourth part; one-fourth; one-quarter; quarter; quartern; twenty-five percent

Context example:

a quarter of a pound

Hypernyms ("one-quarter" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

 Context examples 

Small shallow lakes dominate the world’s freshwater area, and the sediments within them already produce at least one-quarter of all carbon-dioxide, and more than two-thirds of all methane that come from lakes.

(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)