English
quartering
Verb
  1. present participle of quarter#English|quarter
Noun

quartering (plural quarterings)

  1. A division into four parts.
    • 1994, David C. Schneider, Quantitative Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Scaling (page 36)
      Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
  2. The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
  3. The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
  4. (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
  5. (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
  6. (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
  7. (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
Translations
  • German: Vierteilung
  • Russian: четвертова́ние
Adjective

quartering (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
  2. (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.


This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary