Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Quartet

Quartet , noun

[Italian quartetto, dim. of quarto the fourth, a fourth part, from Latin quartus the fourth. See Quart.]

1.
(a) (Music) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
(b)
(Music) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.
2.
(Poet.) A stanza of four lines.

Also: Quartette