quarter section

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   a land unit equal to a quarter of a section (160 acres) and measuring 1/2 mile on a side

   Broaderarea unit

Questions about quarter section

What does quarter section mean?

quarter section means "a land unit equal to a quarter of a section (160 acres) and measuring 1/2 mile on a side".

Is quarter section a common word?

quarter section 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.