quart

Etymology

From French quart, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).

noun

  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.
    A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major. 1908, Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted
  3. (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

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