last quarter

noun

, Astronomy.

1. the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.

last quarter

noun

1. See first quarter
   one of the four principal phases of the moon, occurring between full moon and new moon, when half the lighted surface is visible Compare first quarter

Example Sentences

In the last quarter of 2020, iPhone sales in the world’s second-largest smartphone market nearly doubled compared to the previous year, data from Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Research show.

From Quartz

In the last quarter alone, profits spiked 140 percent, to $631 million, year over year.

From Washington Post

I haven’t watched all the games this season, but I watched the last quarter of the season and the playoffs, our offense is just unstoppable.

From Time

Judging by the last quarter of 2020, New York’s luxury real estate market should enter 2021 with confidence.

From Fortune

Sarah Pitt, University of BrightonAs we move into the last quarter of 2020, the virus that has defined this troubled year is showing no signs of going away.

From No Straight News

Netflix has little room for error: On $1.18 billion in revenue last quarter, it held on to only $5 million in free cash.

From The Daily Beast

The SCF kicked in half of the $900,000 Bevin raised in the last quarter of 2014.

From The Daily Beast

Facebook last quarter claimed 728 million active users, up 25 percent from the previous year.

From The Daily Beast

Unfortunately, J. Michael Lennon tries something in the same vein in the last quarter of his sprawling biography.

From The Daily Beast

Reports suggest the last quarter saw the best Oprah Winfrey Network numbers since the channel was launched in 2011.

From The Daily Beast

The proofs of the first quarter of the book were in my hands before I had finished writing the last quarter.

From Project Gutenberg

By the last quarter of the eighteenth century watches and clocks were quite common in the colonies, where they were also made.

From Project Gutenberg

A pale moon in her last quarter was tossed high among the stars, as if upborne upon the ebbing tide of night.

From Project Gutenberg

The last quarter has made an epoch for me, by the fact that, for the first time in my serious authorship I have written verse.

From Project Gutenberg

The week of the Pascal celebrations would have occupied the time until the moon's last quarter.

From Project Gutenberg