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Quart Definition

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English

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Etymology

From French quart, from Latin quartus, one-fourth.

Pronunciation

Noun

quart (plural quarts)

  1. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
  2. (card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.
    • 1908, Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted
      A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quartus (“fourth”)

Noun

quart m. (plural quarts)

  1. quarter hour
  2. A political subdivision of the parishes La Massana, Ordino, and Sant Julià de Lòria in Andorra.
  3. (obsolete) barrel; unit of liquid measure equal to one-quarter of a pipe
  4. (paper) quarto; paper size
  5. (printing) quarto; book size
Catalan ordinal numbers
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Ordinal : quart Cardinal : quatre Multiplier : quàdruple

Ordinal number

quart m. sg. (feminine singular quarta, masculine plural quarts, feminine plural quartes)

  1. (ordinal) fourth

Usage notes

When quart is the ordinal number of a century or of a regnal name of a monarch or pope, it is written using Roman numerals following the noun. Thus Joan Quart is written Joan IV.

For most fractional numbers, the ordinal number is used to indicate the denominator of the fraction. Quart and its forms share the job of indicating fractional fourths with quarter and its forms. Exceptions to this rule include mig (“half”), terç (“third”), quarter (“quarter”), milionèsim (“millionth”), bilionèsim (“billionth”), ....

The feminine form of the ordinal is usually used as the collective noun for a set of like objects of that size. Instead of quart, qüern is used. Exceptions to the usual rule include parell (“set of 2”), qüern (“set of 4”), centenar (“set of 100”), grossa (“set of 144”), miler (“set of 1000”), and milenar (“1000”).

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Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Latin quartus.

Pronunciation

Noun

quart m. (plural quarts)

  1. quarter (fraction)

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The quart is a unit of volume (for either the imperial or US customary unit of measure) equal to a quarter of a gallon, two pints, or four cups. Since gallons of various sizes have historically been in use, quarts of various sizes have also existed; see gallon for further discussion. Three of these kinds of quarts remain in current use, all approximately equal to one litre.
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