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.
Don't use # for number â it's not common in Europe. On the continent, commas are decimal points and decimals are commas, so a euro and a half is â¬1,50 and there are 5.280 feet in a mile. (Britain and Ireland use commas and decimal points like North America.) Metric Conversion. Expect to confront the metric system in your European travels.