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Trimester vs Trimeter - What's the difference?

trimester | trimeter |

As nouns the difference between trimester and trimeter

is that trimester is a period of three months or about three months while trimeter is a line in a poem having three metrical feet.

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

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    trimeter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * trimetre

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line in a poem having three metrical feet.
  • a poetic metre in which each line has three feet.

    • Related terms

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