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last quarter

noun

, Astronomy.
  1. the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.


last quarter

noun

  1. one of the four principal phases of the moon, occurring between full moon and new moon, when half the lighted surface is visible Compare first quarter


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Example Sentences

Netflix has little room for error: On $1.18 billion in revenue last quarter, it held on to only $5 million in free cash.

The SCF kicked in half of the $900,000 Bevin raised in the last quarter of 2014.

Facebook last quarter claimed 728 million active users, up 25 percent from the previous year.

Unfortunately, J. Michael Lennon tries something in the same vein in the last quarter of his sprawling biography.

Reports suggest the last quarter saw the best Oprah Winfrey Network numbers since the channel was launched in 2011.

The proofs of the first quarter of the book were in my hands before I had finished writing the last quarter.

By the last quarter of the eighteenth century watches and clocks were quite common in the colonies, where they were also made.

A pale moon in her last quarter was tossed high among the stars, as if upborne upon the ebbing tide of night.

The last quarter has made an epoch for me, by the fact that, for the first time in my serious authorship I have written verse.

The week of the Pascal celebrations would have occupied the time until the moon's last quarter.

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