QUARTER-HOUR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quarter of an hour

Synonyms:

15 minutes; quarter-hour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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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