A quarter of the circumference of a circle.
1Sometimes the tall, black forecastle swung in a quarter-circle; sometimes the stern went round.
2A pale quarter-circle has been traced in the varnish by the door's slow-swinging path.
3We watched the players' bodies as they jogged through the green quarter-circle of the outfield.
4His view was restricted, but there was no sign of life on the quarter-circle it commanded.
5The artificial satellite was swinging up behind them, and was only a quarter-circle about Earth behind them.
6The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile.
7He lowered his bicycle to the ground and pulled the screen door through its quarter-circle in the dirt.
8The tangle finally ended when the black archer backed away in a quick quarter-circle and snaked his ankle around the leg of a wooden stool.
9Facebook Twitter Pinterest The golden spiral is a patchwork made up of quarter-circles.
10The flat was quarter-circled by a waterless creek upon whose banks grew a few misshapen and splintered cottonwoods.
11"Yes," said his wife, "I like that and the quarter-circling in of those front corners; those balconies, too."
Translations for quarter-circle