Quartal

Quick meaning: Quartal is an adjective meaning (mathematics) Of base four; using only four unique digits.

Meaning

(mathematics) Of base four; using only four unique digits.

More Meanings

1. (music, of harmony) Having a distinct preference for intervals of fourths.
2. (rare) A section or block of a city in Russia.

Example Sentences

Thus in the Ishan’s yard, not far from the Russian Company’s office, in the quartal of Bokhara called Juibar, may be seen a number of these patients chained, or rather picketed, to posts like horses.

According to the police regulation, Moſco is partitioned into twenty chief diviſions, denominated from the principal ſtreets they ſeverally comprehend, e. gr. the Boſmanſkoi, the Verſkoi, &c. Each of theſe main diviſions are again divided into ſeveral quartals.

Design large blocks (quartals) for social service and education units of population, but make them not more than five hundred meters on each side. […] Provide playfields within quartals in the ratio of not less than two and one-half square square meters per person living in the quartal.

In order to simplify the regulations of the police, the city is divided into several quarters, or, according to the Russian terms, quartals. […] The first Admiralty Quartal, nearly in the centre of the city, is the smallest, but it is that in which luxury and wealth have established their headquarters.

Word Forms

• quartals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quaternary, quartic, subquadruple, quadrantal, quaternal, quattuordecimal.

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