quarter section

Also found in: Thesaurus, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

quarter section

A land unit equal to a quarter of a section and measuring half of a mile on a side.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

quarter section

(Units) US and Canadian a land measure, used in surveying, with sides half a mile long; 160 acres

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

quar′ter sec′tion

(in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbr.: q.s.

[1795–1805, Amer.]

Quarter Section

A square block of land of onehalf mile along each side, containing 160 acres and, unless being used only as a unit of area measurement, located so that it was one of four equal-size portions of a section.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

quarter section - a land unit equal to a quarter of a section (160 acres) and measuring 1/2 mile on a side

area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

With a small pinch of it in one hand, and a quarter section of a bread-fruit in the other, the greatest chief in the valley would have laughed at all luxuries of a Parisian table.

View in context

"There'll be room for that and for everything on a quarter section," she encouraged.

View in context

Hall of Niantic township sold his quarter section of land to Joseph Clinton of Cisco for $500 per acre.

August 7, 1919 - 100 Years Ago

Central for each township is a map of the villages, with a complete listing of the names of the people who took out initial patent to each quarter section. In the township that includes the town of Niverville (the only township with a railway town), the layout of the streets is included on a separate map.

Historical Atlas of the East Reserve, Illustrated, (East Reserve Historical Series # 6)

Halep is in the toughest quarter section of the draw which also comprises sixth seed Caroline Garcia, seven-time champion Venus Williams, five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova and world number 13 Daria Kasatkina of Russia.

Kerber, Williams may cross paths at Montreal event

NK Patent Law serves clients from Silicon Valley to RTP, with offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, and the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter section of Winston-Salem.

NK Patent Law Opens New Office in Charlotte

We knew it was the right thing to do."<br />The 7-Eleven rebuild was slightly delayed because a new store prototype was being developed at the time; however, the store today is larger with a more open design and has a lot more to offer customers.<br />"We lost a substantial part of that store's base because there were so many people that were out of their homes in that quarter section where our store is located, and that was still the case even when we reopened," Brown said.

Moore bigger, better, stronger

Meet in The Middle ATB: Meet In The Quarter Section

2017 BEST OF CAMA

The mapping program, National Geographic TOPO (version 4.5.0), was used to locate all outside quarter section corners and all line trees.

Pre-settlement Vegetation of Greene, Jersey and Macoupin counties along the prairie/forest border in Illinois

In 1912 Chicago's City Club sponsored a competition for a "Scheme of Development for a Quarter-Section of Land within the Limits of the City of Chicago," a quarter section representing 160 acres (thirty-two blocks).