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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A note having one-fourth the time value of a whole note.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In musical notation, a note equivalent in time-value to one half of a half-note; a crotchet: marked by the sign or . Also quarter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun music A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note

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