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A quarter of a gallon that refuses to mean the same thing twice across oceans.
means A unit of liquid (or sometimes dry) volume equal to a quarter of a gallon, varying by system — roughly 0.95 liters in the US and 1.14 in the UK.
from From the Latin 'quartus,' meaning 'fourth,' which slid into Old French as 'quarte' and on into Middle English. The number-bone is the same one that gives us 'quarter' and 'quartet' — all descendants of Latin 'quattuor,' 'four.' So a quart has always meant, quite literally, 'a fourth part' — of a gallon, in this case.
- split identity
- US quart and UK quart differ by 20 percent
- latin root
- From quartus, simply meaning fourth
- dry vs wet
- US has separate dry and liquid quarts
- berry unit
- Strawberries once sold by the quart basket
for instance
us liquid quart — 1/4 of a us gallon, exactly 946.353 milliliters, standard us measurement
imperial quart — 1/4 of an imperial gallon, 1.136 liters, used in uk and commonwealth countries