Definition of Quatern

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Quatern

quat
quata
quatas
quatch
quatched
quatches
quatching
quate
quater in die
quatercentenaries
quatercentenary
quatercentennial
quatern (current term)
quaternaries
quaternarily
quaternarist
quaternarists
quaternarization
quaternary
quaternary ammonium
quaternary ammonium compound
quaternary ammonium compounds
quaternary carbon atom
quaternary industry
quaternary structure
quaternary syphilis
quaternate

Literary usage of Quatern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"MS. supr. citât, quatern. 5. It appears also, that the ... Ibid, quatern. 5. A benefactor grant« to the said convent on the day of his anniversary, ..."

2. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... citât. quatern. 6. Compare Wilkins's Condi, iii. 670, ii. 4. 1 jacket. ... prior ten dolia <vini, or twenty pounds in money, AD 1337. ibid, quatern. 5. ..."

3. A Foundational Study in the Pedagogy of Arithmetic by Henry Budd Howell (1914)
"The binary-ternary system, from which the quatern-quinary system is derived by augmentation, is lacking in graphic representation. ..."

4. A Foundational Study in the Pedagogy of Arithmetic by Henry Budd Howell (1914)
"The binary-ternary system, from which the quatern-quinary system is derived by augmentation, is lacking in graphic representation. ..."

5. The History of English Poetry, from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century by Thomas Warton (1870)
"Ibid, quatern. 5. A benefactor grants to the said convent on the day of his anniversary. ... Ibid, quatern. 10. Before the year 1200, 'Vina et mod ones' arc ..."

6. Tusayan Migration Traditions by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1900)
"It is easier to represent the quatern concept graphically than ... The ramifications of the concept are still more extended than those of the quatern idea, ..."

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