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There is a difference between a duration period of three months as in "trimester" and an event occurring every 3 months as in "quarterly". In the same vein you would have a quadrimester or tri-annually(which means three times a year; not every 3 months) both being correct in the right context.
Things which happen "every three months" are less likely necessarily to occur in full years, contracts could be cancelled at any time for instance. In the specific case of pregnancy the word "trimester" is used to refer to the three-month periods into which the nine-month pregnancy is divided for various monitoring purposes but this is rather ...
Problem is, unlike its counterparts bimonthly and biweekly, trimonthly is only defined as occurring every three months, sans a secondary three-times-a-month meaning. I would recommend thrice-monthly, if you needed to form a single word. The committee meetings will occur thrice-monthly until this matter is resolved. EDITS:
"Semi-annually" describes an event that recurs every 6 months. Is there a similar term for an event that recurs every 3 months? (I'm guessing that "semi-semi-annually" isn't the correct answer.) More importantly, is there a resource or table somewhere that I can use in the future to construct prefixes for other intervals shorter than a year?
From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc. I understand that it's surely not exhaustively
1 Best answer. BMcCalpin. Level 13. Actually, "quarterly" is every three months. 12 months divided by 4 = 3 months. Yes, it seems odd that the quarterly due dates are April 15th, June 15th, September 15th and January 15th, but there is method to the madness. April 15th is because the due date of the 1040 is April 15th, and it didn't make sense ...
The term is quadrennial. four-monthly. bimonthly. monthly. There is disagreement on whether there even exists a proper, unambiguous term for "every four months." Many use triannualfor the purpose ...
What months are quarterly? Quarterly months are months that fall on 1/4th of every year. The quarterly months are January-March, April-June, July-September, and October-December.
In this context there are three trimesters in a full-term pregnancy each trimester being roughly three months or thirteen weeks long. Trimester neatly divides a thirty-six week pregnancy into three parts and I understand that, if the terms are of equal length, how trimester gives the length of the terms but I don't quite get how trimester can ...
And, as can be seen was intended to mean three times a week. There is no clear evidence of its meaning once every three weeks until 1901. Daily News 12 Jan. 5/3 In consequence of military restrictions..the advertisement sheet which has been appearing every week will be issued tri-weekly.