Biannual vs Halfyearly - What's the difference?
biannual | halfyearly |
Semiannual: occurring twice a year
* 1980 , Jose D. Salas, 'Applied Modeling of Hydrologic Time Series', Water Resources Publication, ISBN 0918334373, page 448 section 8.9
* 1988 , Ursula Schneider & Michael Schratz, Permanent Education Between New Illiteracy and High Power Technology: 198 , Institute for the Comparative Study of Public Policy, University of New Orleans, ISBN 0962142301,introduction,
* 1992 , Simon J. Nuttall, European Political Co-operation , Oxford University Press, page 286,
* 2001 , Jack C. Harris, Jack P. Friedman, Real Estate Handbook , Barron's Educational Series, ISBN 0764152637, page 163,
* 2008 , Royal College of Nursing website (UK)
Occurring once every two years.
* 1993 , World Bank, Developing the Occupied Territories: An Investment in Peace'', volume 4, ''Agriculture , ISBN 0821326910, page 1,
* 1997 , Steven Blakemore, Intertextual War , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ISBN 0838637515, pages 190–192,
* 2001 , Kenneth I. Wolpin, Empirical Methods for the Study of Labor Force Dynamics , Routledge, ISBN 0415269407, page 84,
* 2004 , Lee Penn, False Dawn , Sophia Perennis, ISBN 159731000X, page 380, footnote 3,
Something occurring twice each year.
* 1995 , Xi yang yu wen yan jiu suo & Danjiang da xue, Tamkang Review , Graduate School of Western Languages and Literature, Tamkang University, page 366,
As adjectives the difference between biannual and halfyearly
is that biannual is semiannual: occurring twice a year while halfyearly is alternative form of lang=en.As a noun biannual
is something occurring twice each year.As an adverb halfyearly is
alternative form of lang=en.biannual
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.
- ...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 ....
- Example: Under a lease, Abel is required to make biannual rent payments, ...
- Biannual newsletter: The Society publishes a twice yearly newsletter, called "Headlines"
- 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... .
- Thus he argues that the members of the National Assembly were independent from the constituencies that elected them, because the latter (the assemblies, administrative and elected) are "biennially renewed," as was the National Assembly.... This [being responsible to electors] is implicitly the case of the representatives in the National Assembly, who must also face biannual elections....
- Now, after having solved the biannual' period problem back to period one of the ten ' biannual periods, i.e. quarters 77–84... .
- "The Earth Charter opens a new phase...." (Mikhail Gorbachev, as quoted in The Earth Charter Initiative, Biannual Report 2002–2003, Earth Charter International Secretariat,
http://www.earthcharter.org/files/resources/Biannual%20Report.pdf , p 10,...).
Usage notes
Although biannual'' properly means twice a year, its conflation with (biennial) (once every two years) is quite common. For clarity, one can use ''twice a year or other synonyms instead.Derived terms
* biannuallySynonyms
* semiannual, twice-yearlyNoun
(en noun)- It was a biannual from April 1970 to October 1977 and has been a quarterly since fall 1978.
