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A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure and equal to1 /4 of a gallon or 32 ounces (0.95 liter).
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Any container with a capacity of one quart.
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The definition of a quart is unit of measure for liquids (equal to 1/4 of a gallon or 32 ounces), or unit of measure for dry ingredients (equal to 1/8 of a peck or 2 dry pints), or the container used to hold the capacity of a quart.

An example of a quart is the amount of liquid if you combine two pints.

An example of a quart is a long slender milk container.

An example of a quart is a container of berries sold at the supermarket.

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A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to14 gallon or 32 ounces (0.946 liter).
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A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in dry measure, equal to18 peck or 2 pints (1.101 liters).
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A unit of volume or capacity in the British Imperial System, used in liquid and dry measure, equal to 1.201 US liquid quarts or 1.032 US dry quarts (1.136 liters).
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A container having a capacity of one quart.
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The contents of such a container.
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A unit of liquid measure, equal to14 of a liquid gallon or 2 liquid pints or 32 fluid ounces (0.94635 liquid liters): the British and Canadian imperial quart equals 1.1365 liquid liters.
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A unit of dry measure, equal to14 dry gallon or18 peck or 2 dry pints (1.1012 dry liters or 67.2006 cubic inches)
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A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in dry measure and equal to1 /8 of a peck or 2 pints (1.10 liter).
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A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
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(card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.
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Singular:
quart
Plural:
quarts

Origin of quart

  • Middle English from Old French quarte from Latin quārta feminine of quārtus fourth kwetwer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French quart, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth").

    From Wiktionary

Quart Sentence Examples

  • The size of jar commonly known as a quart size may have a capacity from 4 o 0 th to s 00 oth of a microfarad, and if charged to 20,000 volts stores up energy from a quarter to half a joule or from -ths to Iths of a foot-pound.

  • For this purpose solutions of sulphate of copper or of nitrate of silver may be gently introduced into the bowel in quantities of a quart at a time.

  • I have some that give over two gallons a day and I've sold some that only gave a quart each milking.

  • The story is told by William of Tyre, who calls the place Quart Piert or Pierre, but it is a mere romance.

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