Trimester vs Trimestrial - What's the difference?
trimester | trimestrial |
A period of three months or about three months.
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.
Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months.
Occurring once every three months; quarterly.
(Webster 1913)
As a noun trimester
is trimester, third part of an academic year.As an adjective trimestrial is
of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months.trimester
English
Noun
(en noun)- She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.
- The school operates on a trimester schedule.