Trimester

Noun

 * 1) A period of three months or about three months.
 * She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.
 * 1) 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

 * quarter, semester

Holonyms

 * academic year

Hypernyms

 * term

Thesaurus
abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, clover, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, deuce-ace, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, leash, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, session, set of three, shamrock, sidereal year, solar year, sun, tercet, term, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trefoil, trey, triad, trialogue, triangle, tricorn, trident, triennium, trihedron, trilogy, trine, trinity, trinomial, trio, triphthong, triple crown, triple threat, triplet, triplopy, tripod, triptych, trireme, triseme, triskelion, trisul, triumvirate, triunity, trivet, troika, twelvemonth, week, weekday, year

Etymology
From French; from trimestris:, from tres: + mensis:.

Translations

 * Armenian: եռամսյակ
 * Catalan: trimestre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (sān yuè qī)
 * Finnish: kolmekuukautisjakso, (of pregnancy)
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: trimestris
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: триместр;  (only as "a quarter of a year")
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: trimestre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 學期, 学期
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese:
 * Polish: trymestr
 * Russian: триместр
 * Ukrainian: триместр

Anagrams

 * remitters
 * trimeters