quartering

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil present participle and gerund of quarter
2. isim A division into four parts.

   “Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.”

3. isim The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
4. isim The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
5. isim The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
6. isim One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
7. isim A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
8. isim The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
9. isim Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
10. isim A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.

    “The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.”

11. sıfat Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
12. sıfat Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
13. sıfat At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.