quarter-hour
noun
a period of 15 minutes.
quarter-hourly
-
a word derived from
quarter-hour.
Example Sentences
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A local court in 2015 granted their demand to halt the quarter-hourly chimes but kept the hourly beats.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2017
An unnamed couple who lived closed to the church had sought a halt to the hourly and quarter-hourly clangs between 10 pm and 7 am.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2017
Our train was one of many special trains leaving at quarter-hourly intervals, and there was already an anxious crowd hurrying to it, with tickets entitling them to go by that train and no other.
From London Films by William Dean Howells
Frank continued warm, as I ascertained by quarter-hourly pokes, but he did not stir.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
