Trimester

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  • noun. A period or term of three months.
  • noun. One of three terms into which an academic year is divided in some universities and colleges.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A term or period of three months.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A term or period of three months.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A period of three months or about three months.
  • noun. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one of three divisions of an academic year
  • noun. a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided
  • Word Usage
    "You may hear the word trimester period of three months a lot while you’re pregnant."