A first quarter moon shows half of its lighted hemisphere – half of its day side – to Earth.
But we officially call this moon a quarter and not a half because it is one quarter of the way around in its orbit of Earth, as measured from one new moon to the next.
http://earthsky.org/moon-phases/first-quarter
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