: 11 The later definition by Cavalli-Sforza & Bodmer (1971) is currently used: Genetic polymorphism is the occurrence in the same population of two or more alleles at one locus, each with appreciable frequency, where the minimum frequency is typically taken as 1%.
The financial world splits up its calendar into four quarters, each three months long. If January to March is the first quarter, April to June is the second quarter, and so on, though a company's first quarter does not have to begin in January.
Quarter means one fourth of something. An example of a quarter is one piece of a brownie cut into four equal pieces. The definition of a quarter is twenty five cents or a U.S. coin equal to twenty five cents. An example of a quarter is the US coin with George Washington's face on it.