biannual

adj
/bʌɪˈanjuːəl/UK/baɪˈænjuəl/US

Etymology

From bi- + annual.

  1. derived from annālis
  2. borrowed from annuālem
  3. prefixed as biannual — “bi + annual

Definitions

  1. Occurring twice a year

    Occurring twice a year; semiannual.

    • The annual values were disaggregated into biannual values. Then the biannual values were disaggregated into quarterly values. Finally the quarterly values were disaggregated into the desired monthly values.
    • Collection of papers presented at the workshops during the 1988 biannual symposia in February (New Orleans) and May (Innsbruck).
    • […] the biannual meetings between the President of the European Council and the President of the United States were formalized, there were to be two meetings per year […]
  2. Occurring once every two years

    Occurring once every two years; biennial.

    • The relative share of agriculture in GDP of the West Bank (calculated on the basis of fixed 1986 prices, and as a two-year average to deal with the major biannual fluctuations in olive production) declined[…].
    • Now, after having solved the biannual period problem back to period one of the ten biannual periods, i.e. quarters 77–84 it is necessary to convert the state variables, namely n, SK and GK, from biannual to annual units.
  3. Something occurring twice each year.

    • It was a biannual from April 1970 to October 1977 and has been a quarterly since fall 1978.

The neighborhood

Derived

biannually

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at biannual. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at biannual. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at biannual

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA