quartal

Of base four; using only four unique digits.

Adjective

  1. Of base four; using only four unique digits.
  2. Having a distinct preference for intervals of fourths.

Origin

From Latin quārtus + -al.

Derived

calcaneoquartal

Noun

  1. A section or block of a city in Russia.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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. - 1885, Henry...

Origin

From Russian кварта́л (kvartál), from German Quartal, from Medieval Latin quārtālis.

Forms

quartals