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TriQuarterly is a name shared by an American literary magazine and a series of books.. The journal is published twice a year under the aegis of the Northwestern University Department of English and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art.
Systematic names and words comprising SI prefixes and binary prefixes are not hyphenated, by definition. Nonetheless, for clarity, dictionaries list numerical prefixes in hyphenated form, to distinguish the prefixes from words with the same spellings (such as duo-and duo). Several technical numerical prefixes are not derived from words for numbers.
[a] The astronomer's mean tropical year, which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices, is currently 365.24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars. A year can also be measured by starting on any other named day of the calendar, and ending on the day before this named day in the following year. [1]
As companies report on a quarterly basis, if you receive a statement from July 1 to Sept. 30 this would indicate how the company performed financially in the third quarter.
However, the word trimester derived from latin litarally means THREE months (tri-mestris). I have never really understood why they use it in a way which seems not to be in line with its latin meaning (supposing that an acadmic either knows latin language or would at least do some study before using such a term).
The IUPAC numerical multiplier is a system of prefixes used in chemistry to indicate the number of atoms or groups in a molecule.
The Tri-Cities transit agency stands to lose up to $200 million in funding by 2037 if the sales tax reduction is passed, according to a presentation set for the board’s Thursday meeting, April 11.
Meaning Origin language and etymology Example(s) bacillus: rod-shaped Latin baculus, stick Bacillus anthracis: bacteri-Pertaining to bacteria: Latin bacterium; Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion), small staff bacteriophage, bactericide: balan-of the glans penis or glans clitoridis: Greek βάλανος (bálanos), acorn, glans balanitis: bas-