surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available; he died while undergoing surgery.
A quarter mile is, by definition, a fourth of a mile. It is 1,320 feet or 402.3 meters. On a standard-sized Olympic track, it is a little more than a single lap.
To find out how many feet in miles, multiply the mile value by the conversion factor or use the converter. 1 Mile = 5280 Feet 1 Mile [US, Nautical] = 6076.1 Feet 1 Mile [UK, Nautical] = 6080 Feet There are 5280 feet in a mile, because one mile is defined as 8 furlongs and 1 furlong is 660 feet, that makes 8 * 660 ft = 5280 feet in a mile.