What does "quartering" mean?
A division into four parts.
Quartering
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A division into four parts.
- Grammar: quartering is listed as adj, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: accommodate, achievement, alerion, animal charge.
- Useful contrasts: beam-on, displace, evict.
- Usage evidence: Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A division into four parts. countable, uncountable
"Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes."
- 2 dividing into four equal parts wordnet
- 3 The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen. countable, uncountable
- 4 living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel) wordnet
- 5 The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages wordnet
- 7 The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. countable, uncountable
- 8 One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer. countable, uncountable
- 9 A series of quarters, or small upright posts. countable, uncountable
- 10 The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes). countable, historical, uncountable
- 11 Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field. countable, uncountable
- 12 A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground. countable, uncountable
"The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of quarter form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object. not-comparable
"Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored."
- 2 Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component. broadly, not-comparable
- 3 At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other. not-comparable
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "quartering"?
Common synonyms include: accommodate, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, apportion.
How do you use "quartering" in a sentence?
Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
Etymology
By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.