one-quarter

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one-quarter - one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"

fourth part, one-fourth, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent, fourth

common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers

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Both of Mars' moons are vastly nearer her than is our moon to Earth; the nearer moon being but about five thousand miles distant, while the further is but little more than fourteen thousand miles away, against the nearly one-quarter million miles which separate us from our moon.

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The frozen little isle of Iceland has one-quarter as many; and even into Turkey, which was a forbidden land under the regime of the old Sultan, the Young Turks are importing boxes of telephones and coils of copper wire.

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It is as crooked as any brook, and only from one-quarter to two-thirds as wide as the Mississippi.