quarter-circle

1. 1.

   a quarter of the circumference of a circle

   Synonymsquadrant

   Broaderline

Questions about quarter-circle

What does quarter-circle mean?

quarter-circle means "a quarter of the circumference of a circle".

How many syllables are in quarter-circle?

quarter-circle has 4 syllables: quar-ter--cir-cle. The stress falls on "ter-".

What is another word for quarter-circle?

Close synonyms include quadrant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quarter-circle a common word?

quarter-circle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.