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Trimester vs Quarterly - What's the difference?

trimester | quarterly |

As nouns the difference between trimester and quarterly

is that trimester is a period of three months or about three months while quarterly is a periodical publication that appears four times per year.

As an adjective quarterly is

occurring once every quarter year (three months).

As an adverb quarterly is

once every quarter year (three months).

trimester

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period of three months or about three months.
    • She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.
  • 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.

    Coordinate terms

    * (term of an academic year) quarter, semester

    Holonyms

    * (term of academic year) academic year

    Hypernyms

    * (term of academic year) term

    Anagrams

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    quarterly

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Occurring once every quarter year (three months).
    • quarterly rent payments
  • (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
    • The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Once every quarter year (three months).

    • Noun

    (quarterlies)
  • A periodical publication that appears four times per year.