trimester — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter.

   Examples

   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.

   Synonyms

   trisem

   Examples

   The school operates on a trimester schedule.

Noun

1. a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided

   Broader terms

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2. one of three divisions of an academic year

   Broader terms

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