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QUARTER-HOUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quarter-hour mean?
• QUARTER-HOUR (noun)
The noun QUARTER-HOUR has 1 sense:
1. a quarter of an hour
Familiarity information: QUARTER-HOUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quarter of an hour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
15 minutes; quarter-hour
Hypernyms ("quarter-hour" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Holonyms ("quarter-hour" is a part of...):
60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)
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