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quarter section — ☆ quarter section n. a unit of land area, equal to one quarter of a square mile or 160 acres (64.752 hectares) … English World dictionary
Quarter section — A quarter section, often shortened to quarter, is an area of one fourth of a square mile, or 160 acres (2.5900 km²). It was a common size of a tract in homesteading in the United States and Canada.For details on its use, see *Dominion Land Survey … Wikipedia
quarter section — A square piece of land, one hundred sixty acres in area, constituting one fourth of a section laid out by the government survey, being the Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, or Southwest quarter of such a section. McCartney v Dennison, 101 Cal 252 … Ballentine's law dictionary
quarter section — noun a land unit equal to a quarter of a section (160 acres) and measuring 1/2 mile on a side • Hypernyms: ↑area unit, ↑square measure … Useful english dictionary
quarter section — noun N. Amer. a quarter of a square mile … English new terms dictionary
quarter section — noun Date: 1804 a tract of land that is half a mile square and contains 160 acres in the United States government system of land surveying … New Collegiate Dictionary
quarter section — Western U.S. (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing 1/4 sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbr.: q.s. [1795 1805, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
quarter section — quar′ter sec′tion n. sur dial. (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. • Etymology: 1795–1805, amer … From formal English to slang
Section (United States land surveying) — thumb|277px|Sectioning a township.In U.S. land surveying, a section is an area nominally one mile square, containing 640 acres (2.6 km²). Nominally, 36 sections make up a survey township on a rectangular grid. As the townships are based on… … Wikipedia
quarter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. one fourth; trimester; district, region, direction; lodging, billet; mercy; two bits (inf.). See side, pity, leniency, abode. v. t. quadrisect; divide, cut up; billet, station. See location,… … English dictionary for students
