Quart Definition

kwôrt
quarts
noun
quarts
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.
Webster's New World
A unit of dry measure, equal to14 dry gallon or18 peck or 2 dry pints (1.1012 dry liters or 67.2006 cubic inches)
Webster's New World
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).
American Heritage
Any container with a capacity of one quart.
Webster's New World

Quarte.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • dry quart
  • two pints
  • thirty-two ounces
  • one-fourth gallon
abbreviation
Quarter.
Webster's New World
Quarterly.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Quart

Noun

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.

  • But the definite description of Gargantua in the title as "Pere de Pantagruel," the omission of the words "second livre" in the title of the first book of Pantagruel while the second and third are duly entitled "tiers" and "quart," the remarkable fact that one of the most important personages, Friar John, is absent from book ii., the first of Pantagruel, though he appears in book i.

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