trimester
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin trimestris from tri- (“‘three’”) + mestris (“‘month’”)
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trimester (plural trimesters)
- 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.
[edit] Translations
period of three months