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Quarter Section

Definition: Quarter Section

Quarter Section

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Quarter Section

DomainDefinition

Mining

A fourth of a normal section of the U.S. Public Land Survey system, representing a piece of land normally 1/2 mile (0.8 km) square and containing 160 acres (64 ha) nearly as possible. It is usually identified as the northeast, northwest, southeast, or southwest quarter of aparticular section. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Quarter Section

Specialty definitions using "quarter section": quarter post. (references)

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Anagrams: Quarter Section

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-q-r-r-s-t-t-u"

-3 letters: auctioneers, eructations, intercourse, quercitrons, recreations, retractions.

-4 letters: acquitters, auctioneer, carnotites, carrotiest, centauries, certainest, contraries, coquetries, croquettes, equestrian, eructation, instructor, intercaste, orientates, quercetins, quercitron, questioner, quittances, raconteurs, reacquires, reconquers, reconquest, recounters, recreation, rectorates, requiescat, retraction, rusticator, scrutineer, truantries, utterances.

-5 letters: acquirers, acquitter, aequorins, anoretics, antiquers, austenite, careerist, carnotite, carotenes, carrotins, catteries, cauteries, ceintures, centiares.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Quarter Section


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

51 75 61 72 74 65 72      53 65 63 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010001 01110101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01010011 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#117 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#83 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0075 0061 0072 0074 0065 0072      0053 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

51876784867184253716986758180

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4. Orthography
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