different between trimester vs trimeter

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

Alternative forms

• trimetre

Etymology

tri- +? meter

Pronunciation

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

Noun

trimeter (plural trimeters)

1. A line in a poem having three metrical feet.
2. a poetic metre in which each line has three feet.

Related terms

• trimetric
• trimetrical

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

• remitter, trimetre