The Clue
Quarter or half (6 letter answer)
The Answer
PERIOD
Tags
Notes
The answer PERIOD is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1200 puzzles.
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Definition
PERIOD as a noun:
1. (time period, period of time, period) = an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
2. one of three periods of play in hockey games
3. (period, historic period, historical period) = a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
4. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
5. (menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow) = the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
6. (period, point, full stop, stop, full point) = a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"
7. (period, geological period) = a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
8. the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"