different between trimester vs quarterly

English

Etymology

From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from tr?s (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?a?.m?s.t?(?)/, /t?a??m?s.t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?a?.m?s.t??/, /t?a??m?s.t??/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Noun

trimester (plural trimesters)

1. A period of three months or about three months; quarter.

   She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.

2. One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester.

   The school operates on a trimester schedule.

Hypernyms

• (term of academic year): term

Holonyms

• (term of academic year): academic year

Coordinate terms

• (term of an academic year): quarter, semester

Translations

Anagrams

• remitters, trimeters, trimetres

Danish

Noun

trimester n (singular definite trimestret or trimesteret, plural indefinite trimestre)

1. trimester

Declension

References

• “trimester” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Etymology

quarter +? -ly

Adjective

quarterly (not comparable)

1. Occurring once every quarter year (three months).

   quarterly rent payments

2. (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.

   The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

Translations

Adverb

quarterly (not comparable)

1. Once every quarter year (three months).

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Noun

quarterly (plural quarterlies)

1. A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

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