three quarters
Most of something
Three quarters is three of four equal parts—75 percent of a whole.
It describes amounts three quarters of the pie, proportions three quarters full, and time three quarters of an hour.
In American football, three quarters marks the end of the third period of play.
Also written three-quarters or ¾.
- fractionPart divided by whole
- seventy-fiveNumber after seventy-four
- coinStamped metal currency
- pieCrust-enclosed baked dish
- cutSeverance or reduction
slice · half · percentage · decimal · waning · gibbous · waning moon · most · numerical · denominator · hour · time signature · proportion · mixed number · clock · nearly · nearly there · close call
three quartersone quarter
Single part of four
one fourth · one eighth · a handful · a few · nearly all
three quartersby a whisker
By the slimmest margin
barely · just barely · by the skin of one's teeth · neck and neck · by a hair
quarter, three, triple, treble, triplet, tripled, threes, three-quarters