quarter hour's Usage Examples:

The number of chime sets matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.

They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.

A cuckoo which pops out every quarter hour was added in 1952.

as an offset of a number of hours (and possibly half or quarter hours) "ahead of GMT" or "behind GMT".

Mary’s had its grand opening, which consisted of a two-and-three-quarter hour ceremony that began at 6.

On each quarter hour, it sounds the hours and then the quarters on two gongs.

According to reports, the exchange lasted for one and three quarter hours leaving one dead and several dozens injured on Macau side and more than 100 casualties claimed on the Communist Chinese side.

During its run as KROS-FM, the station simulcast the AM signal initially, and later aired a beautiful music format, with quarter hour sweeps of instrumental cover versions of popular songs.

The American Specialist degree typically requires 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours beyond the master's degree (60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours beyond the Baccalaureate) and can be completed in one to three academic years of continuous full-time or part-time enrolment.

Each succeeds the last every quarter hour, passing in front of the skeletal figure of death, who waves a scythe.

The number of chime sets matches the number of quarter hours that have.

Synonyms:

15 minutes, hr, unit of time, hour, 60 minutes, time unit,

Antonyms:

sunset, sunrise,