tri|mes|ter

tri|mes|ter
tri|mes|ter «try MEHS tuhr», noun.
1. a period or term of three months.
2. a division (usually one third) of a school year.
[< French trimestre, learned borrowing from Latin trimēstris of three months' duration < tri- three + mēnsis month]

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