quarterly
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editquarterly (not comparable)
- Occurring once every quarter year (three months).
- quarterly rent payments
- (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
- The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
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editoccurring once every quarter year
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divided into four parts crosswise
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Adverb
editquarterly (not comparable)
- Once every quarter year (three months).
- (heraldry) In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
- 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
- It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […] .
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editonce every quarter year
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Noun
editquarterly (plural quarterlies)
- A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
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editperiodical publication
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