Quarter (UK) (qr)
28 pounds (12.7 kg), a quarter of a long hundredweight. A traditional British unit of weight.
1 quarter (UK) = 12.70058636 kilograms (exactly).
About the quarter (UK)
Taking one fourth of a larger unit, as the name suggests, produced several quarters in British measure. The mass version is 28 pounds, a quarter of the 112 pound long hundredweight and two stone, which is roughly 12.7 kilograms. The Units of Measurement Regulations 1994 define it as 28 pounds.
A second quarter measured dry goods. Under the Weights and Measures Act 1824 a quarter of grain was eight bushels, or 64 imperial gallons, about 290.95 liters, a size known as the quarter of London since the Latin quarterium Londoniense of Magna Carta. The 1985 Act dropped it as a volume unit. The weight quarter lingers on old anvils and bells stamped in hundredweight, quarters and pounds: an anvil marked 1.1.8, for example, weighs 148 pounds. Four of them make a hundredweight, and eighty make a long ton.
Sources: Wikipedia: Quarter (unit); Wikipedia: Hundredweight
Quarter (UK) conversion chart
1 quarter (UK) expressed in every other weight & mass unit:
| Unit | 1 quarter (UK) |
|---|---|
| Kilograms | 12.70058636 |
| Grams | 12,700.58636 |
| Metric Tons | 0.01270058636 |
| Pounds | 28 |
| Ounces | 448 |
| Milligrams | 12,700,586.36 |
| Micrograms | 12,700,586,360 |
| Carats | 63,502.9318 |
| Stone | 2 |
| Short Tons | 0.014 |
| Long Tons | 0.0125 |
| Troy Ounces | 408.3333333 |
| Daltons | 7.648471871×10²⁷ |
| Earth Masses | 2.126617722×10⁻²⁴ |
| Solar Masses | 6.387114897×10⁻³⁰ |
| Quintals | 0.1270058636 |
| Grains | 196,000 |
| Drams | 7,168 |
| Hundredweight (US) | 0.28 |
| Hundredweight (UK) | 0.25 |
| Slugs | 0.8702666048 |
| Troy Pounds | 34.02777778 |
| Pennyweights | 8,166.666667 |
| Scruples | 9,800 |
| Apothecaries' Drams | 3,266.666667 |
| Roman Pounds | 38.61534314 |
| Roman Ounces | 463.5250496 |
| Attic Talents | 0.4848292243 |
| Attic Minas | 29.08975346 |
| Attic Drachmas | 2,908.975346 |
| Obols | 17,453.85208 |
| Shekels (biblical) | 1,104.398814 |
| Hebrew Talents | 0.4409925819 |
| Monme | 3,386.823029 |
| Kin | 21.16764393 |
| Kan | 3.386823029 |
| Qian (Chinese) | 2,540.117272 |
| Liang (Chinese) | 254.0117272 |
| Jin (Chinese) | 25.40117272 |
| Dan (Chinese) | 0.2540117272 |
| Catties (Hong Kong) | 21 |
| Taels (Hong Kong) | 336 |
| Tola | 1,088.888889 |
| Seers | 13.61111111 |
| Maunds | 0.3402777778 |
| Zolotniks | 2,977.30193 |
| Funts | 31.01356178 |
| Poods | 0.7753390444 |
| Libras (Castilian) | 27.60438946 |
| Arrobas (Spanish) | 1.104175578 |
| Arrobas (Brazilian) | 0.8467057573 |
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