Quarterly vs. Trimester

Quarterly vs. Trimester — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Quarterly and Trimester

Quarterlyadjective

Occurring once every quarter year (three months).

quarterly rent payments

Trimesternoun

A period of three months or about three months; quarter.

She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.

Quarterlyadjective

(heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.

The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

Trimesternoun

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.

Quarterlyadverb

Once every quarter year (three months).

Trimesternoun

a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided

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Quarterlynoun

A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

Trimesternoun

one of three divisions of an academic year

Quarterlynoun

a periodical that is published every quarter

Quarterlyadjective

of or relating to or consisting of a quarter;

quarterly report

Quarterlyadverb

in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon;

two coats of arms borne quarterly

Quarterlyadverb

in three month intervals;

interest is compounded quarterly
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