trimester

noun
/ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/UK/ˈt(ʃ)ɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/US

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

  1. derived from trimestris
  2. derived from trimestre

Definitions

  1. A period of three months or about three months

    A period of three months or about three months; (financial): 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…

    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.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for trimester. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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